Philomel
Did you know that Annie Oakley had a cow called Old Pink? Or that she made her first quail trap out of cornstalks? Or that the very first time she picked up a rifle, she was able to shoot a walnut that was hanging off a tree?
I know that because in the fifth grade my teacher, Mrs. Coleman, had a book called
Annie Oakley by Ellen Wilson, and please don t tell anyone, but I borrowed it from the classroom library and somehow never returned it. (I am sure I meant to, I really am, but how Annie was so much like me . really, I have no excuse). I must have read that book a hundred times, along with