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Lena's Own Fish House by Joe Fitka

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Lena's Own Fish House

Lena started off her summer cleaning out her fish house and getting it ready so that she could cut fish.

By the first part of June she already had cut 25 King salmon. This was the first time she'd cut fish in her own fish house. The first fish that she got she cut strips, and everybody was dropping by to give her tips and pointers on how to cut the fish. Then later she started cutting Chums. After all of her racks in her smoke house were full she started going on boat rides and getting wood for the smoke house with Vassily.

When the berries were ready she went to the tundra every day to pick blue berries. One time they went to Kwik to pick berries but it started raining and they had to come home early. While coming home they encountered a cow moose around Willow and they stopped the boat and watched it eat for a while. When they got home she cleaned her berries and went to maqi with her friends in John Moxie's steam house.

Joe Fitka
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