Pigeons for Cash
By Les Anderson
When I was growing up in North Wichita my brothers, cousins, and I caught pigeons for cash. We would crawl under bridges, up in the rafters of abandoned warehouses and buildings and up on the grain elevators to catch them. We’d get .25 cents each for the pigeons from an old man named Reuben.
He lived just north of 29th North on Arkansas. He would resell the pigeons for $1 to hunters to train their dogs. Our parents never knew where we’d go to catch the pigeons. If they had, I doubt they would have let us continue. And selling the pigeons we caught was way better than picking up pop bottles to sell to grocery stores.
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