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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 ...

Catch the Turkeys


Catch the turkeys,

Before they get away!

We need to cook them

For Thanksgiving day!


Get your nets,

Grab your rifles

If we hurry now

We can catch them without trifles.


Hide in the bushes

Hide behind the trees

If we get the jump on them

We can catch them with ease.


Stay very quiet

Don’t make a sound.

The turkeys are getting closer,

They’re coming around.


Get your nets ready

And your rifles too.

On the count of three, now.

One, two–


Bang! Great job!

You got ‘em!

Now get your sacks

And let’s all bag them!


It will be great to show off

The fat turkeys we’re bringing.

Let’s have a delicious dinner

And a Happy Thanksgiving!

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