Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat

Author:Farley Mowat
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781551991993
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2008-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

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We harnessed up the dogs, with Mutt leading because he knew how to pull in harness and Rex didn’t. Rex didn’t seem to want to learn, either. He kept pulling off to one side, and every time he did it he almost upset the wagons. We had an awful time getting our outfit all the way downtown and we were nearly late for the parade, which started at ten o’clock. One thing, though: by the time we did get there, old Rex was just about worn out and he had stopped acting like a bucking bronco.

The parade formed in front of the Carnegie Public Library and then it was supposed to go about six blocks to the T. Eaton Store, where the judges’ stand was.

It seemed like a million kids were there with every kind of pet you ever saw. One little boy, about five years old, was leading a Clydesdale horse as big as an elephant, and the horse had BABY on the blanket it was wearing. If that thing was a baby, I hope to eat it!

There were a lot of goats, and it was a hot day, and you could smell goats all over Saskatoon. Some of the girls were wheeling cats along in baby carriages, and the cats were wearing silly hats and were pinned down under lacy covers. Some of them were yowling fit to scare the dead. There were more dogs than you could shake a stick at—every kind of dog you ever heard about, and a lot of kinds that nobody ever heard about.

Right in the middle of the parade was a boy leading a pet skunk on a string. He had the middle of the parade all to himself, too. Nobody was crowding him!

There were pet rabbits, ducks, chickens, geese, a couple of pigs, and a bunch of pedigree calves. There was even one little boy carrying a quart jar full of water, with a bunch of tadpoles swimming around in it.

You’d expect lots of trouble, what with all the animals and the fact that it was a hot day and everybody was excited and there was so much noise. But there really wasn’t much trouble. There were dogfights, of course; and one dog, who wasn’t even in the parade at all, made a go for a cat in a baby carriage and that stampeded one of the goats. But some salesmen from the store were in the parade too, and they got things quieted down, though one of them got bitten on the leg, a little bit.

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