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Owls in the family. By Kenley The book by Farley Mowat. Chapter 1.
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Owls in the family By Kenley The book by Farley Mowat
Chapter 1 There is three boy’s and it’s spring time in Saskatoon ,Saskatchewan Canada . They want to find a owls nest to get a baby owl for a pet. One of the boys was not there but the other two boys went looking on the prairie one of the boys names Bruce the other boy name is Billy and the last ones Murry . There was a crow annoying Bruce so Bruce went up a tree to get the crows eggs to get back at the crow so he climbed up the tree and he was caring three crows eggs in his mouth. He slipped a little and the crows eggs broke and it was in his mouth he took the taste out with a tuna fish sandwich because it was lunch time.
Chapter 2 When they were finished with lunch they started walking again they saw this huge bluff of crows . Why were they there ? Because there was a great horned owl was there they found it’s nest it was a old crows nest they said they were going to bring Mr. Miller back tomorrow Mr. Miller is their old teacher . When they got home Billy told his dad he was going to have a owl as a pet his dad said “not another pet “!but then Billy’s dad thought again because he thought the owls would eat all the rats and gophers and rabbits and white mice and all the other pets so he said o.k. The next day they brought Mr. Miller back with them by the end of the day the owl flew away with Mr. Miller ‘s hat and they also new that there three baby owls about the age to take home as pets.
Chapter 3 Billy, Bruce and Murry went looking on the prairie because there was a storm the night before there was storm and they went to check to see if the owls were all right it was such a disaster it looked like a tornado hit the prairie. When they were looking at the recharge one of them came a crossed found two of the three owls dead they had a funeral for the two owls. One of them went to the flipped over nest and tried to look under it then something bit them then they turned it over completely and there was one of the owls the last owl. All alone they took it to Billy’s house and they kept the owl there they decided to name the owl Wol.
Chapter 4 • One day Billy decided to go ride his bike when he was riding his bike two boys were throwing rocks in a barrel the boys asked Billy if he wanted to go over there and have some fun. He went over there and looked in the barrel and saw a baby owl at the bottom .Billy said he will trade them his scout knife for the baby owl they said sure because the owl was almost dead. They named the other owl weeps because he was so sad all the time.
Chapter 5 • The owls loved to be like humans instead of owls they like to walk like humans only wol new how to fly but he hated it and he also knows another trick to rip chicken wire they hated to be in there cage and one day he tried to rip the chicken wire and he did he followed Billy every were he went .When wol went in the yard when a dog saw him they would run and hide.
Chapter 6 • They entered a contest for best display and best pets they painted rex to look like a zebra and mutt like a lion they put dolls cloths on the owls a pink dress on weeps and a sailors suit on wol .They made a cage for the gophers and a septet cage for the white mice and Bruce had a special animal in store for the contest. when they got there they saw so many animals they could not believe there eyes . Then finely Bruce showed every one the special pet it was a Rattail snake! Every one was so scared they went mad there was madness it was a madd house.
Chapter 7 • Hiding the bone ,dinner stealing and tail squeezing are Wols favorite games to play when he wants' to bug Mutt. One day Wol caught a skunk and decided to bring it in the house the room smelled so bad they could not eat in there dinning room for three weeks.
Chapter 8 • The three boys were walking on the path to there cave they found the cave about a year ago and wanted it to be there fort and now it is. when they were swimming in the river by the cave two older boys walked up and threatened them to tell them were the cave was or they will hurt them. Wol was up in a cotton wood tree and he looked like a ghost because he is all white he did his great horned and flew down the two older boys were so scared the ran away.
Chapter 9 • Billy had to go to school Wol was following him to school. He had to go back to the house to put Wol in there cage weeps stayed in cage like a good little owl and leave then Wol broke the chicken wire and he and Weeps snuck out of there cage. Then Billy saw them following him and tied Wol to his bike at school and ran in as fast as he could before the bell rang. He had French as his first class they called there teacher fifi they give the mean teacher nicknames. By the time school started Wol had untied him self and slid through the window and was landed on the desk and started sliding it looked like he was on ice skates.
Chapter 10 • They went camping in Dundrun they brought there canoe when they got there they saw a ton of crows more then you have ever seen. When they saw Wol and Weeps they automatically went in to a bluff Wol and Weeps hid and the crows went away dad got his shot gun out and tried to shot the crows it did not work Wol went out on a post and the crows went crazy by the time they got home they were a lot less crows in Dundrun.
Chapter 11 • Billy is moving to Toronto so on the way there they had to stop by to give the owls to Bruce because they could not do that to the owls because Toronto is a busy place and the owls should not live like that. Bruce moved a long time ago they own a fox farm now Billy and his family are staying at Bruce’s house for a couple days they had a lot of fun they are keeping mutt Billy does not want to move but his dads job is moving so he is moving .
Fun facts • the owls in the family book is based on a true story • Wol was a white owl with no brown color at all weeps is all br0wn owl with a little bit of a cream color • Owls and crows hate each other
