she told about the old couple that ran the general store right up into their eighties , and how that little old woman was one of the best bear hunters in the county because , way back before anyone could remember , her husband had left her alone on the farm with the young farmhand , while he went to hunt bear for a couple of weeks , and when he came home , he found her in the hayloft with the farmhand , and he shot the farmhand , but he didnt shoot his wife .