Double Dealing

Double Dealing

Gophers, however cute, are a financial nuisance

on pasture land. Farmers try to get rid of them.  

During the Great Depression our Wisconsin

county paid 5 cents for a gopher tail. The county  

next to ours, though, gave 5 cents for a gopher 

head. We kids collected twice on the same gopher! 

2024 Jacqueline Jackson

This article appears in Healthy, wealthy and wise 2024.