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Floyd and brother Frank were out 16 days counting beaver houses for the government and at night they would use a three-gallon galvanized steel water pail with some hay and kindling in it to create a smudge to keep the mosquito’s out of their cabin, leaving the door open to filter the smoke. They had a gal lon of lard outside the cabin and one night Floyd half-way woke up in the middle of night and in kind of in a daze he watched as a big bear tried to enter through the cabin doorway, he finally uttered some thing like “a bear is coming in” and the bear bolted. Frank slept through the episode and didn’t believe him and thought that Floyd had been dreaming until he went outside and saw a big bite taken out of the lard bucket.

Violet’s Floyd Chapter 15 Living in a remote area such as the Kielczwski family, a main method of transporting nearly anything was to pack it out. Floyd’s first pack sack was a burlap gunny sack that cut through his shoulders, so he had to put mitts under the straps.