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View of a woman next to two donkeys packed with food and such, taken ca. 1930 Eva and her burros packed for a trip. Just outside the old barn is a shallow depression eight foot in diameter where an Indian wigwam stood when Eva's Uncle John Lazier first lived on the property. The story told is that the Indian woman living there killed herself by eating wild sorrel, a poisonous acid dock plant growing in the area. One day while visiting her we sat down to rest among the apple trees on her property. She told me we were sitting on the bear path. Mr. Bear had recently visited, because Eva showed me claw scratches on some of the apples. She told of the time the bear came up on her porch, and "Trixie", her calico cat whp was sitting on the window sill, hissed and bristled at the intrusion. Eva took tin pans clashing them and shouting at the bear, who went "woosh" over the steep ditch into the dense brush. Animals were always a part of Eva's life and she continually worked to try to protect her fruit and vegetables. She hung old clothes in the apple trees to keep away the bear.
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