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In a message dated 97-12-22 18:41:44 EST, you write:

>
> I can remember going with a kind old uncle to the woods to look
for
> pawpaws. He told me that I was to hunt for mounds of dry leaves, for coons
> were the best judges of pawpaws in the world, and when the fruit was just
> prime, they always gathered them into piles and covered them carefully
with
> dry leaves.
>
> I soon found such a wonderfully big heap, and digging down, sure
enough,
> there they were, bright yellow with spots of black and sweet! oh, but
those
> coons did surely know when pawpaws were at there best.
>
> It is only as I think of it again, more than eighty years later, that
I
> realize and appreciate the tenderness of the kind old gentleman when he
> gathered those pawpaws into heaps and covered them with autumn leaves for
> me
> to find and delight in.
>
> Walt Davies
Just curious - what are paw paws? and where are they to be found in Oregon?
It sounds like a southern term for a type of mushrooms but have never heard
them called that in Oregon
Carroll Cooper Summers

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