their lives. The Indians had planned to massacre the people. George and Nancy Ellen were parents of 12 children, six of them born in Mountain Green. They were George Edwin, Charles Washington, Eliza Ann, William Carlos, Abiah Alonzo and Lucinda Ellen. In 1859 and 1860 the Higleys lived in East Weber (Uintah) where they operat¬ed a farm, but high water in the Weber washed their crops out and they were left without means. The family returned to Mountain Green. George and Abiah Wadsworth helped survey Morgan County. Sometime after 1871 George and Nancy Ellen took their six children and moved to Hooper. They took up land and began farming. Six more children were born in Hooper. They were Joseph Warren, Franklin Spencer, Olive Deseret, Ida Eleanor, Walter Leonidas and Mabel Edner. George Washington Higley died in September of 1905 at his home in Hooper. He was 74 years old. Nancy Ellen lived until 1920, dying in October of that year. Both are buried in the Hooper Cemetery. Mabel Higley Barnyard Lament The hen remarked to the mooley cow, As she cackled her daily lay, (That is, the hen cackked) "It's funny how I'm good for an egg a day. I'm a gool to do it, for what do I get? My food and my lodging. My! But the poodle gets that—he's the household pet, And he never has laid a single egg yet— Not even when eggs are high." The mooley cow remarked to the hen, As she masticated her cud, (Thatis, the cow did) "Well, what then? You quit, and your name is mud. I'm good for eight gallons of milk each day, And I'm given my stable and grub, But the parrot gets that much, anyway— All she can gobble--and what does she pay? Not a dribble of milk, the dub!" But the hired man remarked to the pair, "You get all that's coming to you. The poodle does tricks, and the parrot can swear, Which is better than you can do. You're necessary, but what's the use Of bewailing your daily part? You're bourgeois—working's your only excuse; You can't do nothing but just pro¬duce— What them fellers does is art!" Author Unknown 113