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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I can't think of any thing that smells better than bread
baking in the oven. Yum yum!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Martha Simpson Ford in the story below was my gr gr
grandmother. This took place in the Walla Walla Valley circa
1859/60.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=5> One bright sunshiny
morning Martha Ford had just finished baking a batch of bread and had turned the
loaves out on the kitchen table to cool. A canoe came down the river and
in it were five Indians. They sniffed the aroma of fresh baked
bread. The chief gave orders to pull for the river bank. Then they
all got out and went up the trail to the little log cabin. Martha went to
the door in response to a loud knock. She asked the Indians what they
wanted. The chief spoke up and said, "We want bread and butter." So
Martha cut slices of the fresh bread and buttered it. When she came to the
chief, he wanted his slice of bread buttered both sides. Martha said, "No,
you don't get butter both sides," and the chief said, "I am chief Crooked
Finger. You butter both sides." Martha reached over in the corner
and picked up her rifle and chased them all down to the river and they got into
their canoe and paddled away.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Family legend says that Nineveh Ford was not very happy
about this. :-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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