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Young girls holding coyote pups and a string of gophers to feed them.

Five schoolgirls, with bobbed hair and mid length dresses, along a fence. Four are holding coyote pups, one is holding a string of snared gophers.

Photo courtesy of Glenbow Museum (na-4079-32)

The barnyard offered endless opportunities for mischief. One interviewee remembers watching a proud rooster strut and crow around the coop. He looped a rubber seal ring around his legs and watched the rooster fall forward. He was the only one who thought that the rooster’s humiliation was funny and he got into a lot of trouble.