Mad has decided to catch a vulture, the biggest bird she can find.
She is so determined, and so inventive, that by stringing together a rickety trap of ropes and sticks, she creates a puzzling structure that just might be clever enough to trick a buzzard, once the trapβs baited with leftover pork from supper.
Mad and I used to do everything together, but now I need a project all my own, so I roam the green fields, finding bones.
The skull of a wild boar. The jawbone of a mule.
Older cousins show me how to shake the muleβs quijada, to make the blunt teeth rattle.