What was their most profitable venture

Buddy and his friend made money in a variety of ways: selling berries, selling jars of homemade preserves, hosting rummage sales, picking bouquets to sell for weddings and funerals, and by making fruit cakes to sell during the holidays. Although most of these ventures resulted in them earning little more than spare change, the two managed to garner some larger amounts by winning contests. Their most profitable venture, however, occurred the summer two years prior to the story’s start, when the two turned an empty woodshed in the backyard into a Fun and Freak Museum. After paying a modest admission fee, attendees could view slides of major cities using a hand-held device and then, behold the venue’s freakish live attraction: a three-legged chicken. Although Buddy and his friend charged only two cents for children and a nickel for adults, their attraction was an enormous success, earning about twenty dollars in revenue that summer. Unfortunately, their Fun and Freak Museum's success died with the demise of the biddy hen.