Owls in the family.

1. Owls in the family. By: Farley Mowat Slide by: Katelyn #17

2. Chapter 1 In the beginning of this chapter Billy and Bruce are looking for owls nests, so they can get some owls eggs because they want a pet owl. They don’t find any, but they do find a crows nest and Bruce climbs the tree to get the eggs. When he climbed and got the eggs, he had to put them in his mouth to carry them down. Bruce slipped and fell, smashing the eggs. They saw a Great horned owl but no nest. Soon after that, Billy found a owl nest. They decided to come back the next day.

3. Chapter 2 Billy’s dad doesn’t want a owl because it will eat all his other pets. But after he thinks about it, he decides that a owl might eat all his other pets. On a Sunday afternoon he met Bruce and Mr. Miller at Mr. Miller’s house. Mr. Miller climbs up and a owl takes his hat.Mr.Miller built a blind, which is a tent in a tree, with a camera. The owl wrecks the blind.Mr.Miller says that there are three baby owls in the nest.

4. Chapter 3 Billy and Bruce are trying to think of ways to get the owls out of the tree. Bruce says he could get his dad to shoot the old owl, but Billy says that that would not be fair.One night there is a really big storm called a Chinook and Billy hopes that the owls are ok.In the morning they find that the nest is blown out of the tree, and two dead baby owls are on the ground. Then they find a 3rd baby owl that is still alive.

5. Chapter 3 The owl was as big as a chicken, and he was very cold. Billy tried to pick him up but, the owl spread his wings and hissed at them. But he wasn't strong enough and fell on his face. When Billy touched him he hunched down , because he thought that Billy was going to hurt him. Murray gave him some meat from his sandwich to eat. When they left the owl followed them. The owl bit mutt’s nose. Billy names the owl Wol.

6. Chapter 4 Billy brings Wol into the house and thinks he locks the door, but Wol gets out and scares the maid whose name is Ophelia(Offy for short). She leaves and never comes back. He and his dad make a cage out of chicken wire around a tree stump. One Tuesday he is biking and he sees two big kids dropping stones into a barrel. He went over to see, and what he saw the boys thought was fun, but he did not.

7. Chapter 4 Billy brings the owl home and his dad lets him keep it. Wol becomes friends with the new owl, Weeps.

8. Chapter 5 When Billy goes to school he always wondered what his owls are doing. When school gets out he bikes home as fast as he can. By the time he gets home the owls are pacing up and down impatiently. When he lets them out Wol would jump up on the back of a chair and try to jump from there onto Billy's shoulder. Weeps just sat on the lawn and whimpered until Billy picked him up. Weeps likes to eat anything.

9. Chapter 5 At first Wol only liked cooked butcher’s meat, hard-boiled eggs, and fig cookies. Later he would eat anything from the table except parsnips. Wol learned to climb trees by watching Billy and his friends. People thought Wol was crazy. One time a man asked Billy why the owl didn’t fly to the top of the tree, and Billy answered him “He can`t fly sir"' "He never learned how.”.Wol finally learned to fly, but he didn’t like it.

10. Chapter 6 On the day school ended one of the stores announced that there was going to be a pet parade. Billy and Bruce decide to make a circus wagon and put gophers in it. Their dogs are going to pull the wagon. Bruce had brought a surprise pet, but didn’t tell Billy what it was. When he opens the box a rattlesnake slithers out and scares everone,so no one gets a prize.

11. Chapter 7 Weeps and Mutt become friends because Mutt has to protect Weeps from the other neighborhood dogs and cats. Whenever Weeps is let out of his cage he goes and finds Mutt. Wol will not hurt any animal expect skunks. Skunks and owls hate each other. Wol brought a skunk home for his dinner and tried to join Billy for dinner. Wol got sprayed by a skunk when he attacked it. Wol brought home a second

12. Chapter 7 tricks Tricks that Wol likes to play on Mutt. 1.Tail squeeze , 2.Dinner stealing and 3.Bone hiding.

13. Chapter 7 Skunk for them because he thought that they were mad that he hadn't shared his skunk with them.Wol had to have a tomato juice bath and by the time he had finished he looked like a rag mop that had been dipped in ketchup, and he never brought home a skunk again.

14. Chapter 8 Billy, Bruce and Murray have a secret cave. They decided to spend a night in the cave, but Murray was not allowed to go.