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Mrs. Bernard: When you’re being brought up you don’t ask questions that you would have asked today. So I asked him [Stewart Bernard’s father], and he said, well, what tripped me against hunting was when my father, when his father, which is his grandfather, hunted, they would take the skins back and at the time they lived in a shack. And they would have . . . he would hang the skins so that it would dry out. He said . . . he said the smell was so bad, you know, he said that would be one of the reasons that he didn’t do the hunting. He fished, and that was no problem because you know you can always wash the smell of fish away. But when you have a bear, or have a deer, the smell, you know, and of course they used everything. They used, he’d have to scrape it and he’d get sick.