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Dad had it about a year, it got real vicious and he had to get rid of it. Dad gave it to Mr. Seckert who had a Hotel on Jamaica Avenue in Hollis, he had several kinds of birds and animals, I went out there to see the place several times when we moved to Jamaica, he had monkeys running loose, if you left your beer on the bar to look the place over, it would be gone, the monkey would drink it, the place would be full of flies in the summer time, There were five children in the family at this time, Joe, Elizabeth, Frank myself and Ann. Joe, Elizabeth and Frank were born on a farm Mother and Dad had on Springfield Road in Springfield. Joseph and Jacob Boening are still living in the same house Mother and Dad lived when they got married.