MY UNCLE’S FARM

My uncle Tom has a small farm. He has lots of chickens there. Every summer, during the holidays, I go to his farm and help him. I feed the chickens and collect and clean the eggs. It is very interesting, and uncle Tom pays me something for my help. Twice a week we put the eggs in boxes and take them to town. My uncle sells them. He gets quite a lot of money for them. Then he sometimes buys food for the chickens.My uncle’s hens are rather stupid and noisy, I think. They are very useful because they lay eggs, but I don’t like them very much. I prefer the baby chickens and the cocks. My uncle has some white ducks too. They live on a pond on his farm. There is a low wall round the pond, with a small gate in it. Every evening my uncle puts a tin of food near the gate, and the ducks come up out of the pond to eat it. Then my uncle shuts the gate, and the ducks eat their food and go into their box. They sleep there at nights.