Mrs. Haskin Rowe, the niece of the late Edith Mercer (a native of English, Indiana, as was also Dr. Nathan Allen Mercer). She once had a farm near Richmond, Indiana. She regularly saw a bear in the neighborhood. She refused to say anything about it for a long time. After she did, a friend came up and told her, "Well, somebody else has seen your bear."

"Who"? she asked.

The answer was not one she wanted. The other person who saw a bear was the town drunk.