Bambi

Let's go back in time a bit to when Icel took Barbara and Betty to Springdale to help her parents-in-law. A fawn wandered into the yard one day. It just wandered around exploring as all babies will tend to do. It didn't appear to be afraid of people yet. Of course after they had pet it and oohed and aahed over it a bit (and gotten their human scents all over it) its mother did not want it back. It lived on the farm with them for a year or so. 

See, here it is with Barbara:

and with Betty, and quite interested in the camera:

It was obviously quite tame: 

Grandma Icel says this photo was entered in a contest for some magazine and earned an honorable mention. I think it should have won 1st prize! 

(Don't you just love Betty's outfit!)

William and Icel Clark even got to meet the fawn on a visit to the farm. They are on the left and Myrtle with Clyde Perkins on the right.

This story has a bit of a sad ending. When I asked what ever happened to the deer Barbara told me her dad was hunting one fall after the deer and grown and returned to the woods. They had marked the deer somehow or other and so he had no doubt who it was when he went to claim his prey. The circle of life I suppose. Poor Bambi. I hated that movie. I never let my kids watch it because it made me too sad.