| Show AN INCIDENT Verla Mikkelsen Marx 250 West 300 South Mt Pleasant UT 84647 Non-Professional Division Second Place Anecdote What was that Mary Anneyes went wide with fear but she knew she had to remain calm so she wouldnfrighten her younger brothers and sisters The strange scratchy noise came again What should she do Her thoughts flew back to early morning and she heard her mother and father giving last minute instructions Mary Ann Indians were sighted in the hills town this morning We wish we didnhave to leave today but this trip is necessary to get flour for be sure you do exactly as we tell you to Mother west of you alone winter so was put ting things in the wagon as she spoke what your stay ake Father cane in and began giving her instructions on her duties for the day would be Take good care of younger sisters and brothers today Make sure they close around home Get the chores done before dark sure the chickens pigs cow and calf are locked up tight in their pens at leasthalf an hour before dark Then you take the 1ittle ones into the house cover the windows and lock the door If the Indians come this way they probably wonbother you unless they can seelight Mother into flour eight miles thanwalk and father had left early to get wheat ground and it always tookfull day They had to travel to the mill and the horses couldngo faster with their heavy load Mary Ann surely wished mother and father would get back To calm her fears she gathered her sisters and trothers around her on the bed She would tell themstory There was that noise again This time the other children heard it too Joe sald know lethide Mary Ann thought that wasgood idea so she turned the washtubd over and hid her two sisters under that Joe amd George clinbed into the loft and covered themselves with an old quilt Mary Ann crawled under the bed Now they could even hear voices -23 |
