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When I was growing up on my father's ranch, we had to protect the crops and the farm from the prowling bears that would slip into the corn fields and eat the ripe corn before we could pick it.
On the weekends, when I was home from school, the neighbor kids would gather at the ranch and we would
prepare to guard the ranch and the crops at night. We were all excited to be together and for the chance to be
trusted with the night's guard job. We all had Khukuri knives and felt like grownups.
In a large tree next to the crops, the Sherpa's built a tree house for our guard post and put a kerosene lamp inside.
Our job was to watch for the bear and to bang our Khukuri knives on a tin can every 20 minutes to scare the bear away if he showed up. We always had our knives ready in case the bear decided to climb our tree.
One time we all fell asleep in the tree house and the bear slipped silently into the cornfield and ate his fill. When we woke up with the sun in our faces, we climbed down and found a specific pile at the bottom of the tree, left
by the bear so we would know that he had been there while we slept.
Our Khukuri knives today are similar to the one used to kill the bear in the original story and the knives we all
had at our sides in the tree house. You might want to protect your garden with one of the Kancha Kami special Khukuri. Of course it won't do you
any good if you fall asleep in your tree house.
On the weekends, when I was home from school, the neighbor kids would gather at the ranch and we would
prepare to guard the ranch and the crops at night. We were all excited to be together and for the chance to be
trusted with the night's guard job. We all had Khukuri knives and felt like grownups.
In a large tree next to the crops, the Sherpa's built a tree house for our guard post and put a kerosene lamp inside.
Our job was to watch for the bear and to bang our Khukuri knives on a tin can every 20 minutes to scare the bear away if he showed up. We always had our knives ready in case the bear decided to climb our tree.
One time we all fell asleep in the tree house and the bear slipped silently into the cornfield and ate his fill. When we woke up with the sun in our faces, we climbed down and found a specific pile at the bottom of the tree, left
by the bear so we would know that he had been there while we slept.
Our Khukuri knives today are similar to the one used to kill the bear in the original story and the knives we all
had at our sides in the tree house. You might want to protect your garden with one of the Kancha Kami special Khukuri. Of course it won't do you
any good if you fall asleep in your tree house.
Clever bear, sleepyhead children in big trouble.
