Don left the restaurant area to arrange for cabin #4.  A single trucker was in the restaurant and in typical northern fashion struck up a conversation with Harry.  “Where have you guys been fishing?” he inquired.  “Up on Spalding Lake” Harry replied.  “Oh, then that old fellow (pointing to Don in the other room) must be ‘Crazy-man-end-of-lake’?” he questioned.  Harry had heard me say that the Indians called me “Crazy –man-end-of-lake” but I don’t think he fully believed it.  This was total independent confirmation of it and Harry was stunned.  The truck driver then explained to Harry how Don was a well known local character with the Indians.  How they often visited his cabin, stayed there with him at times and he was known for giving a “moose blessing” to Indian hunters that they believed to work for them.

Don returned to the restaurant area and introduced himself the fellow talking with Harry.  He turned out to be Morris Gabrush’s brother.  Don didn’t tell Harry that most of what the truck driver had told him had probably come to him from his brother when he and Terry Helary had visited the island in the fall of 1999.  Nothing like hearing the rumor you have spread come back to you later??