Aunt Minnie’s Gold Fish
Last spring Aunt Minnie had a lily pond made in her lawn.
The pond is four feet deep and is filled with city water.
The sides of the pond are made of cement.
Beautiful water lilies grow in this pond.
Some of the lilies are pure white, others are rose colored.
There are also many buds that will soon open and become lovely water lilies.
Fifteen fat gold fish have their home in this beautiful place.
Some of the gold fish have black spots on their tails.
They seem so happy, living among the water lilies.
They like the oatmeal that my aunt feeds them.
I think it is the oatmeal that makes them so fat.
When the cold days of autumn come, my aunt puts the gold fish in a large tub.
She keeps the tub in the cellar.
Once a week she changes the water.
The fish are comfortable even in the winter time.
But I believe that the fish like their lily-pond home better than their tub home in a dark cellar.