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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
6
A playful verse tale recounts animal vignettes and morals. It features the Elephant, Monkey, Wolf, Dog, Cow, Hen, and Fox with playful lessons about temper, patience, work, schooling, and resourcefulness from a publishable moral allegory.
A trio Bill Pete and narrator set out in a homemade wagon named the Mousetrap traveling down the valley with makeshift gear cheese rations a cow encounter and a chaotic journey full of pranks mishaps and farmyard interference. The first day ends with a dramatic bucket explosion and a shaken crew concluding the voyage was dreadful.
Hal slips into a dream world where boys walk on their heads and school runs during vacation. He fights a faster classmate, learns a chicken roosts exist and dodges a giant fox before waking at the haypile amid rain from a barn roof.
The text catalogs numerous counting-out rhymes used to decide who is "it" or who starts the first inning. It lists forms like Ana mana mana mike Barcelona bona, with many variations such as Huldy guldy boo and Houtcha poutche domineutcha ending in out or tusk. It notes shifts in syllables and endings across districts and examples like hotcha potcha and tush transforming to tus or tusk.
A playful exchange between boys and a Sunday School teacher about Noah in the ark. Robbie asks about Noahs time, Willie jokes, and the dialogue ends with a quip about deeds and heaven.
The narrator describes Elsie visiting Aunt Jane at the lonely Honeybrook Homestead to tend a feverish Freddie. Tension with neighbors the Mulligans on Possum Hill colors the visit as they harass Aunt Jane while she endures with mild patience. Hobbs, the station and stationmaster, appears distant and unsmiling as Elsie encounters his stern demeanor.
A tale follows Elsie as she helps villagers during famine and disease, befriending Susie Mulligan and the Mulligan family. Elsie’s garden kindness leads to community trust, a birthday party, and newfound friendship with the Mulligans at Honeybrok hillside homestead.
A child Mildred tells her mother she dug in the yard until she reached China. The mother dismisses the tale as a story while Mildred holds up a broken piece of an old plate as evidence.
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