Look at those titles "Shooting foxes", "Wagging school", and "When I broke the office window". They are hilarious, so today I thought I would share my favourite - "The Sick Chook". (A chook is a chicken for my international readers)
(Murgatroyd the chicken?)
When the other chickens were fighting over the feed, the sick chook just sat.
Grandma crushed an asprin and put it on a teaspoon with some water. (look at that poor chook! - please consult your vet before doing this)
I held the chicken while grandma poured the asprin down the chook's throat.
(poor grandma looks like she is about to have a break down).
Oh that's hilarious Jo! LOL Maybe this is the perfect example of how we or society are softening our kids although I'm not sure I'd like my kids reading that story! LOL
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Oh how I wish my children had read stories like this instead of the boring Biff and Chip books; we'd all have loved them.Don't throw those books away.
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny! I love how it just stops, with no proper explanation of how/why the chook kept getting dug up or why it eventually stayed buried.
ReplyDeleteHahaha this is hilarious Jo. I can't believe they had these in schools.
ReplyDeleteOMG that is hysterical - thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSince my kids do see foxes getting shot it isn't actually a bad story for our house....and we used to live on a farm that if you buried ANYTHING the dog down the hill would dig it up. I work at a school and in the store room are the books I read - Dick and Dora and the like. I think they are priceless!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Gen X has so many issues! Look what we were reading! That poor chicken. That poor woman. And doesn't she know they now know that aspirin is o.u.t? A great giggle for me this morning. Thanks x
ReplyDeleteThat just made my day. My kids would have nightmares about recurring chook carcasses....
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness that is so very "country" and so very honest lol!
ReplyDeleteI remember reading those books in the 80's. I loved them, there was a set about country kids and a set about city kids. I was a country kid and I could relate to them very well!
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