Corgyn, Cats, Goats, Birds, & Morgan
Horse: Page 9
When Ethlyn comes inside from playing in
the leaves she rushes straight away to the kitchen library to
find one of her favorite books, The Great Corgiville
Kidnapping by Tasha Tudor.
Ethlyn can't seem to find the book she is
seeking. Due to Ethlyn's over fondness for Tasha Tudor books they
have to be put on a shelf higher than Ethlyn can reach. (Corgiville
Fair is another of her favorites.) Ethlyn's mummy
gets down The Great Corgiville Kidnapping
and reads her the story.
Ethlyn listens intently and becomes a bit
fearful as her hero Caleb Corgi goes in search of the kidnapped
victim. She too knows how frightening racoons can be as she saw
one along the road the other night as her family was coming home.
Ethlyn gives an understanding nod as Caleb is mistaken for a fox
as such has happened to her also.
Ethlyn's little heart skips a beat when
her hero Caleb Corgi jumps out of a hot air balloon and lands in
Woodstock, Connecticut. Ethlyn listens after her mum finishes the
story and tells her once again about her Peake, May, Lyon, Child,
Shepard, Morris, and Bowen ancestors who came from Woodstock, CT.
Ethlyn's namesake's (Ethlyn Maria Weaver) husband (Bert L. Hoag)
descended from some of these Woodstock families.
Ethlyn's mummy Diane's 5th great
grandfather Eliakim May answered the Lexington Alarm from
Woodstock, CT. Another day perhaps we will take one of our cousin
Louisa May Alcott's books from our kitchen library and read it
aloud. Ethlyn has expressed an interest in cousin Louisa's books
and recently she pulled Rose In Bloom
off the shelf. Grandfather Eliakim May was 1st cousin to Louisa's
great grandfather Samuel May. Eliakim's daughter Mary (May)
Shepard was 2nd cousin to the father of Abigail (May) Alcott who
was Marmee in the story Little Women.
There is nothing like a hot cup of tea, a
good book, and a corgi puppy to snuggle with next to a wood
cookstove... except maybe two corgi puppies!
Whilst on an autumnal trip we happened
upon another corgi puppy. We just had to have her! We named her
Emily Jones Shepard Corgi after Diane's great great grandmother
Emily Jane (Jones) Shepard and Emily (Jones) Shepard's cousin
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, as well as Emily Dickinson's mother
Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. Emily loves playing in the leaves,
she dives and slides like an otter. Ethlyn enjoys her new sister
Emily. Their birthdays are only twelve days apart.
Katrina Corgi has a grand time playing
with them both.
We love our corgyn!!!
One of our favorite poems by our cousin
Emily Dickinson:
Frequently the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown.
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
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