How the Chicken Got Its Name:
How the Chicken Got Its
Name
Many years ago, on a farm there lived a
family that owned a rooster, horse, mouse, dog, cat and a funny
looking animal that nobody knew what she was. The dog and cat were
always fighting, while the mouse nibbled on the rooster's leg. The
other funny looking animal went around all day making "clucking"
noises.
Nobody seemed to mind the clucking noises at
first, but after a while everyone was getting very irritated. The
man tried everything he could to keep it quiet, but nothing
worked. So, they all left it alone and let it continue its
clucking noises. After a while, everyone got used to it and didn't
seem to mind the noise.
The problem was that nobody knew what the
animal was, and they didn't know what to call it.The man and woman
tried to find names for the animal, but they couldn't think of
any. So, did the children.
The dog and cat kept on fighting, and the mouse
decided to nibble on the horse's leg. Once in a while the girl and
boy would argue and fight too. When they did this all the other
animals would be watching with their small, beady eyes. They would
wonder why the two children were always fighting. This, would make
the dog and cat fight even harder.
One day the girl and boy were fighting over a
brand new bike that their father had bought for the both of them.
The funny looking animal was near the girl's feet when her brother
came over and started calling her names like chicken and scaredy
cat. The boy ran towards his sister with a branch and tried to hit
her. When she ran, she suddenly stumbled over the funny looking
animal. The funny looking animal started to make clucking noises
and ran off with a frightened look in her eyes. After that the
children started calling the funny looking animal, chicken,
because she got so scared she ran into the barn.
So, that's how the chicken got its
name.
By: Marcia George
![](http://ankn.uaf.edu/NPE/CulturalAtlases/Yupiaq/Marshall/Mustang/images/mustang57.jpg)
|