Bergie and the Game Warden
Jamie Stevens was the local conservation officer and he was a good one but he and Bergie got along like oil and water.
The basic problem was that they were simply worlds apart timewise. Bergie was born in the forest and had spent her whole life there. She was a traditional hunter and knew no other way. Jamie, on the other hand had been to school to learn his profession and Bergie was not known to be an endangered species even though she was just as woodsy as the wily cougar.
Bergie told me about a paper Jamie had given her that she could neither read or understand when someone read it for her. It was delivered to her after he had tried to take her gun away from her. She said her shoulder still hurt from that. He did not get the gun but he had tried to wrench it out of her hands but failed. She did not understand why he had tried to take her gun from her. She needed it to feed herself.
Apparently she had shot a cougar out of season and that is what sent Jamie after her. To Bergie in season was when she saw game and out of season was when she did not.
