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Where the bear got in the buckwheat

Posted by Jenny on May 21, 2007

Where the bear got in the buckwheat... What are the origins of this phrase? The closest I can find is a Russian story of a man who hunted and thought that he killed a bear, but it escaped and walked through buckwheat which enabled the hunter to catch him once again...