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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 ...
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How to Scare a Pegasus


Scaring away a Pegasus

Can be very hard to do

When you are banned from shooting it

With an arrow or two.


It's frustrating for farmers

To deal with large winged beasts

Who eat their hard work

Of cabbages and beets.


It's sad for farmers

To watch their families grow thin

While Pegasus grow fatter 

To everyone's chagrin.


But no need to cry,

And no need to fear,

One solution to your woes

Is finally here.


I will tell you a way

To bypass the law

Of never shooting a Pegasus

Large or small.


The first thing to do,

Is go to the Whispering Wood,

At its center is a tall blue tree,

Known as a Blue Beechwood.


On this tree are fruits,

Red and gold in hue,

Pluck a few of each kind

When they have fresh morning dew.


Take the fruit home to squeeze

Into a few cups of water.

Sprinkle the mixture on your crops;

Send the Pegasi for silent slaughter.


Give it a few weeks,

Perhaps even a day,

And you'll find the pesky Pegasi

Have mysteriously gone away.


If anyone asks why the Pegasus

Have left your crops alone,

Say "They must’ve found paradise,

And now have a new eternal home."

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