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An easier one is
James Ohio Pattie,

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a figure from Arizona
history, James Ohio Pattie.

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Now, we can think about that.

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It has to do with one
of the first meetings

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of English speakers
at least with Indians

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and it involves beaver trappers.

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I have to tell you that if
you understand the poem,

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the image at the end
has to do with arthritis

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and that was one of the ills
that beaver trappers suffered,

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because they had to
stand in water while they

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were trapping beaver.

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When they saw us
they clawed away

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up a thorny hill, analysands
from their therapists.

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Desperate as usual we ate
their mush made of grass seeds,

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and tied a screaming toddler
to a tree, whom we feared

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would fall in his
rage over a cliff.

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Next day he was gone, exchanged
for the shank of a deer.

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In appreciation, we left
the red handkerchief,

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replaced in the morning
by a robe of rabbit skins.

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I left the pouch of
rifle ball, periods

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from some errant paragraphs.

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And they, bits of mica glued
to a patch of cardboard

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with a picture of
a Saint in pain

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painted on it that they'd
taken from a murdered Spaniard.

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Where would this escalation end?

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They had their murky
lives to get on with,

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and we bear fat to render.

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The ideas of beaver
stripped naked

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from the floods of sunsets
and turned into fortunes

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before arthritis set in.