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Feeding the Chickens: Chicken Licken
You see the chicken? My mother had just one chicken. The little girl is wearing stockings, but they’re rolled up on her knees and there’s a ribbon in her hair. She’s in the chook yard. Margaret is wondering what she is doing.
The girl is young, about 8 years old, and she’s not dressed very nicely. She’s in the chicken yard and she’s going to get some corn to feed the chickens. Her name is Margaret. Elsie thinks they don’t have a lot of money, that’s why she’s not dressed very nicely.
The chook pen is down the backyard in Sydney. Margaret is very smart. She has a family—a mother, who is always very close by. It would be rare for her to have brothers and sisters. There is a bird beside her, a chook, and there are other chooks in the coop. We can only see half of the chook! There’s a hole in the chicken coop for Margaret to reach in and get the chickens out.
Maria’s mother gave the chicken to her son, and the chicken laid fresh eggs every day. Monokokkari was the chicken’s name. The chicken can also get out of the hole, and there is an old door that slides across in the corner.
In the corner there are two eggs that Monokokkari has laid. The girl needs an elastic band around her knees to hold her stockings up. The door to the chicken coop is made of palings.
There’s a “forty-four” on the door.
Are you sure?
“I’m sure,” says Val!
Elsie thinks you wouldn’t hear any noise, but Val says there is a squeaking sound.
Margaret would go and get an egg, and then another one, and another one. Her mother will cook the eggs, use the eggs and everything. Giuseppe says there’s a lot you can do with eggs. They could sell the eggs, make a cake, or go and see a friend and take the eggs over in a bucket or a basket and give them some fresh eggs. They used to do that, and they still do that today.
After Margaret has finished feeding the chooks, she goes in for lunch. She has eggs for lunch! She may be sick of eating eggs. She might not like the eggs and she may vomit! She doesn’t do anything after that.
Nick says Margaret will play with the chickens, and they will make the sound “ka ka ka ka”. Margaret put the bow on her head to make the chickens laugh!
This story was created by Maria B., Margaret C., Nicholas, Giuseppe, Peter, Elsie, Stanley and Val at Mary Potter House, Calvary Hospital, on 16 March 2015.
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