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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

My Cat Wolffang

This is my pet, Wolffang. He was a tough black and white cat who made himself the boss over the other cats we had. He liked roaming inside and outside of our yard. As he got older, he tended to leave our place for days at a time and would usually return. However, one day he left and never came back, unfortunately. I am not quite sure why he didn't come back, but it may have been because he just wanted to cover more territory. 









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