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Trapping


Beaver, rabbit, coon, muskrat

Some for food

And some for your beautiful pelts

Beaver will buy me cornmeal

For my mush

So that I may sit near the fire

And be content

With my skins

And my long

Empty woods

Quiet

For a time

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