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42. The Hen in the Wall

When Helen was approximately six years old the upstairs bedrooms had been petitioned off, and the walls erected, but the

ceilings and walls had not been completed.

For Easter that year, the children had received some jelly beans and some marshmallow hens. Helen had eaten her jelly beans, but had saved her marshmallow hen for the last.

After supper, the children went to play in the bedroom. Helen had placed her marshmallow hen on a beam in the wall by the window. While the children were playing and jumping, Helen looked up to see her hen shaking from the Vibration. She reached for it, and as she did so the hen toppled over and fell inside the wall.

Helen went to tell her parents that she had lost her hen inside the wall. She wanted her mother and father to come and get the hen out for her. Upon inspecting the situation, Margurita told Helen that the hen could not be reached from inside the wall.

Helen cried, “Well, can’t Dad break down the wall? I want my

hen. Of course Alphy was not about to break down the wall, for a

marshmallow hen. Helen was grief—stricken, but she had to do without her marshmallow hen. There it stayed inside the wall.

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