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August 19, 2005
Chicken Dance
(Courtesy of Great Aunt Irva)
Whilst Irva and Cicely were youngsters, at best in their pre-teen trouble-making ages, they lived on a farm in Carey, Ohio, with their mother, father, and grandmother.
Earlier they had been raised in the Panama Canal Zone, as their father (our great grandfather), Irving Claude had managed the running of portions of the zone. Having lost his job, the family moved back to Ohio. The kids were unused to the farm life, animals, so got themselves into a great deal of self-induced trouble.
On one such occassion, the kids, Cicely and Irva, watched as their grandmother butchered one of the chickens from the coop. With interest they saw the carcass be defeathered, and disemboweled for dinner. Whilst their grandmother and mother were not looking, the pair seized the chicken and headed outside, where they strolled about the yard with the carcass of the chicken between them, each holding a wing, singing and dancing, talking to the dead chicken.
Their mother soon caught them and gave them a sound switching, however, the chicken had a good time, according to Irva.
Posted by Ravennacht at August 19, 2005 12:15 PM Posted to Childhood Antics