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MAMAMAGINA and LEAH “MUSH HUSKIES” by MARY VIRGINIA MCCORMICK PITTMAN
64 EC Magazines | Christmas Edition 2021 trips, to help save animals and people in other countries, Leah wanted to know everything that Mama Magina did on those trips. And, Leah said that she wanted to grow up and do the same thing! Then Leah wanted to learn how to take those adventures and turn F ROM THE FIRST TIME MAMA Magina told stories to her precious granddaughter, Leah Virginia, about her conservation and humanitarian
(12,) “stuffed”, plush animals at one time – six for each pretend sled. With their backs in front of the bed-pillows with legs stretched out to be the sleds, and plush animals “dogs” in pretend harness, two-by-two-by two, for pulling their pretend sleds,…They were ready to go! The only thing available for the harnesses and leads, was bright, pink, ribbon! Mama Magina taught Leah how the “musher” must pull the anchor-stake, from the ground before the famous
them into something that she and her grandmother could play And that is how the game “Mushing Huskies” was born! Each night just before bedtime, Leah would bring a number of her plush animals to the sleigh-bed in her pink bedroom, and place them like sled dogs in harness on the bed. Mama Magina would be in the bed and Leah would put herself beside Mama Magina, pretending to be in another sled. That meant twelve
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