Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXV
Violet was badly hurt when daughter Elnora was chopping clods of frozen sawdust with an unusually sharp grub hoe to cover their summer ice. Violet reached out at the same time and the hoe severed the middle finger, leaving it hanging by only a thread of skin and cutting the ring finger half way through. Panic ensued with Orrah tending to Violet and even whittling a cast out of cedar. Amazingly the fingers healed and Violet could even work the knuckle. The adventure caused V
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXIV
Always in the later part of February Violets boys and their dad would come off the trap lines to put up ice to use during the upcoming summer. When the sun started to get warm it was the girl’s job to cover it with sawdust and sometimes it was still frozen in lumps. Elnora was chopping it apart with an unusually sharp grub hoe when Violet, on her knees, reached out at the same time and put her hand on the ice right under the frozen sawdust clump. The hoe severed Violet’s m
