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THE LIDS CLAPPING ALL NIGHT AS THE BEARS HELPED THEMSELVES ANYWAY.  IT MUST
HAVE BEEN ABOUT THIS TIME THAT A FEW CANADIANS STARTED COMING DOWN.  SO ART
WOULD INVITE THEM OVER FOR BREAKFAST AND, I GUESS LEARNING FROM MY MOTHER
IN LAW, I WOULD COOK PANCAKES, BACON EGGS OVER THE BIG OPEN FIREPLACE
OUTSIDE.  SOMETIMES BREAKFAST WOULD LAST UNTIL ALMOST NOON.  BUT THAT WAS,
WHAT WAS SO MUCH FUN ABOUT THE HAMFESTS.  THERE WERE ALWAYS PEOPLE AROUND
TO VISIT AND HAVE AN EYEBALL WITH.  YOU WOULD REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING
THEM YEAR AFTER YEAR.  IN 1940 AND 1941 WE MET AGAIN AT TWO MEDICINE LAKE.
THEN DURING THE WAR I DONT THINK THE CANADIANS COULD COME DOWN AND THE HAMS
WERE NOT ALLOWED TO OPERATE THEIR RIGS AND MOST OF THE YOUNG MEN WENT TO
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1,167,572 B B DF1DX 233,142 C A PR7AR 57,993 C B YB1TJ 66,720 B B 7Z1SJ
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