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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 ...

The Hare and the Snail



A snail watched a hare

Run through the meadow.

“If I could get to him

I could talk to the fellow.”


It took the snail forever

To get anywhere near him

For the hare was so fast

It was hard to keep up with him.


It was only by luck

The snail got a chance to chat

For the hare had decided to rest

From going this way and that.


“I want to be as fast as you,” said snail

“So I can run to and fro.

Can you show me how to run fast

So I can stop traveling so slow?”


The hare shook his head.

“You can’t run fast like me.

I have long legs

But you don’t, you see.”


“Oh,” said the snail.

“That’s not fair.”

“That’s how life is sometimes,”

Said the hare.


At that moment,

A barking dog drew near.

The snail hid in his shell.

“I’ll be safe in here.”


The hare huffed.

“That’s not fair,

I have to run to get away

While you just sit in there?”


“That’s how life is sometimes,”

Said the hiding snail.

“True, true,” said the hare

And he quickly turned tail.

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