Willn’t and Wo Not a Chicken Story

I love English. The words, “can’t” comes from can not, and “aren’t” comes from are not, so I say, will not should be “Willn’t and won’t should break down to “wo not”! Let’s use this last one, my favorite, in a sentence: I’m so full of sadness but I wo not cry at my chicken’s birthday party.
This reminds me of something else I love; a friend who’s about eleven and who has birthday parties, on their hatch days, for her six chickens! She carries the chicken of honor, tucked under her arm, to the park and her sister and friends bring the other birds and balloons. Her friends, those without feathers, bring gifts of various kinds of seeds and live bugs. The packages are unwrapped and the birthday song is sung, and when all the party birds gobble up the gifts and other party favors, the chicken of honor leads a parade around the park, followed by a looong sting of strangers. And where did my friend dig up a looong line up followers? During the gift giving phase people show up with questions like, iron filings to a magnet. “Can I touch it?” “Do they bite?” “What IS that?” “Are you sure?'” ” I’ve never seen a chicken before,what does it do?”
And what DOES a chicken do? Chickens make dirt, and that reminds me of another story but you can find that on Amazon it’s titled, “Gracie’s Grandfather Makes Trouble”  nancymauerman.com

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