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8TARTIN0 A CATTUS RAW IN WTCaiZm
Zb Febrwry, 1882, I oelebra^ ny wist btr^idi^ bir tr*dlag six Maver
trap* and a •aek of flour f(»r a famtor** oabia oa th* head of UoARy eroelu Thi*
oabia, built th® prrriou* year by P*t th* Tra >p«P and Black Jiaok, w* about 14
foot •quar®, aado out of largo grooa plao logo, with a dirt roof and dirt floor*
A big atoae fireplace ia one oad, with tho ohiaaoy built up oa th® outsld® of
th* buildiBg* furaiohod both heat and light. Thmro wore ao wiadowo and tho
floor was made f>om aa oik hide stretched cm topee pole*. A ln>ooK. mdo from
willow twigs, wa* used to sweep the dirt floori aad all the oookiag was oror
tho coals from tho fireplace, using dutoh oreas aad rery thiok skillets. Tho
oabia was well sheltered sad half hidden ia tho willow brush.
I spent the winter of *82 aad *89 ia the oabia, aost of the tiae alcmo,
except for a month or so whim Bill Foalx lived with ao.
time was fully oo»
snqsied trapping aad hunting sad during th* winter, 1 aad* rathmr elaborate plans
to build a aow house aad start ranch life oa ay own hook.
ffli* game was <piite plsaiful. There were aaay bmver in tho hoad«<waters of
the stream aad also a few otter aad mink. Th* coyotes and tiaber wolves wore
howling tho foot hillsi and the furs gathered that fall and wintw brought m
several Inindred dollar*.
Runwrous White-tailed deer lived in the brush along
the creeks and thousands of antelope grazed <m the broad plateaus. Large bands
Of elk aumiered ia the BKRmtains and both black and grizzly bear were plentiful.
Zb tho winter time, many of the aatelop* aad elk crossed to tho north side of
tho Platte river to winter la the send hills. Tho buffalo wore practically ex-
twpainatod, exc^t for a few stragglers on the north side of tho Platte IMver.
Fro«ju«atly in the fall small bands of Indians, hunting parties, visited
that section aad for several year* I did oonsidmrable trading with
�Z « starting oattla ranch
ohanglng augar end ooffaa Sot tlwir tanned huok*alcin«
la the spring of *8S« I started with a four-horse teaa for Fort Collins
to ship the hides end furs aoousulated through the e&ntiMPi and on ny return
Joums;'* stopped in Laraaie City te lay in ay aunner «ipplies^inoludii^
first aoeiag snskiae «ad hay rake* There, Z deeidod I would need a hired nan
and was very fortunate in seourlng the serviees of a young fellow ay osn age,
who had lived on a raaeh at Virginia Dale, Colo*, and was familiar with all
kinds of ranah weric* Together, we left Laranie City with our four-horse load
of supplies*
At letrsBie river, we net our first diffioulty* The water in the river was
dangerously high with a great flood sweeping around the west approaoh ot the
bridge, threatening to oarry awiy the entire struoture. Fearing the bridge
would be washed out, we hurriedly orosoed, but mired dean in the flood waters
on the west side of the bridge and spent the rest of the day trying to salvage
our supplies* Most of then had to be oarried to the bank on horse baok and
the fans maohinery draggod ashore with long ropes. We were both soaking wet and
spent a very disagreeable night trying to dry things out around our oamp fire.
Late in the aftemoflai ^uat as we were over most of troubles, along e—e tee
big freight outfits, headed by Al Ayers, and some neighboring ranohers on the
La Prele. One of their wagona was loddod with a sheet iron Mpping vat fkr
sheep and I know we speoulated about It, beeauso we were unaware of aiywno
ossdng shssp in that seotion.
We reloaded mir outfit and reaohod the eabin on
oro^ on the seocnd
0t Jvlyt 1889, There were no wagon roads in that country, excepting an old
one irtiloh followed up Deer oxwek^ and we then took some gome trails aoross the
Middy, The country was unsurveyed and I was the first settler on the creek.
�S « Startlzis a aattla ranoh
mMb oonaiatad af a •quattarb rl|^ md Z only plaaaad a vary aaall aatflt*
I fait that abaut ISO aoraa af laad with a few head af aattXa vattld ba all I
would avar aara fwr* Baaa to aaoura a tvtt aattla would raquira aona outslda
aapltal,aad I had plaaaad aaating
Inrothar, dolma la Chloago July 4 to or»
goalsa a llttla cattle ooBqpaay* Tha delay at Laramie river had made oqr tlaa very
shot,00 I told Jack to make hlmaelf at hone at the eabla aad thea go up the
oreek about half a mile to ahere the etr«san eoaw through a ridge of roaka aad
otart dlgglae a Una of poet holaa a rod apart* going eaat uatll he reariiad
tha higher table laad aad lhaa dlgglag north uatll 1 returaad* I told hla X
would be ewoy about a weak or 10 dayo* aad ^mo wo would go up la tha aouatalao
mid
aaaa poles to build our faaoa wlldu
It woe 80 Biles from ay eabla to Rook Upeek^on the imioa Paolflo railroad*
and ahlle I was giving Jaek his inotruoti<ms I was also saddling ny horse and
putting la a eouple
sandwlohes to eat on the road* as Z wanted to keep ny
appointment la Chicago as nearly on tine aa possible* X left ny eabla 11130
that Morning aad rode into Baek Creek the next aoralBg la tine to oatoh tdie
9 o’olook train* I think It wan eao of the longest aad beot«tlBod rides I ever
Bade*
la Chioago, X setsvod into a partBsrshlp with ay fa^er aad brother*
they puttlag la a thousand dollars oaeh against ay aoounulated outfit la V^o-
Blngi and X went up into '"isoonsln aad purohased 80 head of yearling heifers froci
the farmers* These* I shipped to Rook Creek and branded T»V froB an old 7
shaped Iron whioh X found thrown away at the stoohyards* X thoa took ay saddle
horse* whioh I had left at ths Seven-Mile Spring ranoh* purohased a little
ooffee aad eon Boal froa Charlie Clay* who was at that time ruanlag a grooery
store at Book Creek* (he afterward aovod his laoroantile eotabllshsMBt to Doug
las. } sad opening the gate at the oorral started ny 80 head of yearling heifers
�< - starting a oattle raac^
for ia^ laaeae rent^ I had little diffioulty getting then hone alone, as I
simpler followed them along and whecever they wwe ready
I oeasped wl'^
thOBa
Of eourse, this all toelE time, «sd instead of being away a week «r ten
deys as 1 had palnned, I had been gone nearly a month, and aattnrally wondered
what ny first hired nan had been doing all the time I was away, Wan I reaohed
the eabln, I found ante That thirty da^w* worie of Jack’s laid the foundation
for all ay life’s real trouble* The line of post holes he had dug north during
ay absenoe was about the most dlsoouraglng thing I erwr looltwd at, and from
that day to this, 1 hare worked night and <kiy trying to oateh
with then* Z
didn’t wish to waste the pent holes, and in order to sake use of then* I had
to revise all ny plana* My 160>*«ore ranoh stretahed out into a large doandn*
Ihr two ears
oattle had to be followed wl^ naay others. Instead of a t9ti
poles from the mountains to build the fenee, Z had to go In debt for a lot of
barbed wire. Jack’s great line of postholes wee one of the aevsn wanders of
the territory, lie beaasn maowned as Poet Bole Jaok, and Is tod^ living in
Casper^ still ohuekllng ov«r the trouble hla famous post holes Inrought me* Ills
brother, TMrt, was oalled Post Bimber Two, and in later years started a part-
nershlp business la Gleorook under the zubbo ot
a>^ Post* Sven now, after
a lapse of 48 years, I am still striving to eatoh up with that line of poet
holes* When the gevenesont surveyed ^e ls»d in that seotion, Z found he had
run his line of post holes north by ths stars without allowing any variatioa*
Z still use that line
fenoe, but have had to buy an awful lot of land to
pretest it*
During the sua-.ser and fall of ’83, we eosapleted our new house anH re
luctantly abandoned the old eabla* This new ranoh house was 18 feet wide nd
e
36 feet long, made of hewed logs* I insisted on having all the logs peeled*
�S » Startlzifi a oattXe raooh
baoausa la tha first aaUa I bought -tiia alaa aad paokorats as wall as aumaroua
smaller animals maoyed me greatly by getting under the loose bait; of tha
house logs* Qne-half of ny naw oabla* a large room 18 feat square, was used
tor o, kitohen, dining room and parlort aad the other half was divided Into
IdiTM bedrooms* It seemed to no tha last word la western luxury* About that
time Fort Fattaraaa was abandanad* aad I saeurad two old doors and six double
windows from some of tha abandoned buildings at tha post* These were all dif
ferent sites and both doors rather low| tha windows of different widths aad
heli^ttst but It was all oomfortable aad hows llks*
tho ouaoassful ranehaaa la a new oountry aust ba more or lass a jaok-of
all trades* As engineer, wa had to run out our Irrlgatlag ditches, largely by
the use of a 16-foot board aad spirit level* Ona of ay neighbors, used thi«
same oootrlvanoa, but unfortunately used the short leg In front and spent natay
ot iiio best years of his life digging dltehes that failed to nake water rtm
hill*
Tha first year, wa had great difficulty la saeuring anoui^ Iwqr tw oaar
oattla* Most of It had to ba out la out-of-the way plaeao wliereaar wa could
find patohas of j^rass wnth aowlag* We ware quite busy finishing our house
before winter aad building shelter sheds for the cattle*
la the suomer of *84, ay father and brother came out from Chioaro to sea
how I was getting along with their two thousand dollars* They took the stage
from Bosk Craide to Fort Fattaraaa where I net them with a wary dalapldatad
buak beard aad asagy team* They ware eartalaly a dlsaouraged looking outfit
when wa reached tha ranoh^ aad ay baehelor haras did not seem to la|irass them
favorably* I was doing sy oen cooldag, aad the saaond noraiag aftsr their ar
rival, fath r was slightly under tha weather aad ay sour dough panoakee aad
�0 « starting a cattle nooh
fried antelope meat did not appeal to hiia. All he wanted waa piollee. At that
tine X bought salted pieloela
the keg ih Laraisie and then ehen needed would
freshen Ihm in a large operwaouthed ehowoohosr bottle* The night before X had
forgotten to cover up "Uie mouth of the ohow»oho« bottle, ehioh was standing as
usual in Vjf hand«nade oupboard, and a eouple of ad.co had fallmi into it* X
up frost
table and brought ^th«r the bottle of pielM edthout notioing the
niee* X will neeer fos^et the look of dlseeuragosMBt sdiioh smpt over his foes
shea he reaohsd his fork into the ehow>ehow bottle for a piokle and brought out
a MUSS* ^jr ftther, with a look of disguot* shoved the bottle of pioles aomss
the table toward ns and said, ^Bryant, there is a nouse in ^e j^oklM*"
brother,
winked at ne aoross t^ table and I gotup, very solenly, Mrried
the ehow-ohow bottle to the door, oarefully threw the mous^ out, dlsoovered
the seeond one there, told ay father ywre were two
then, bhu^ht the bottle
baek and placed it bmide his plate at the table, saying, "I an very sorry, but
X usually throw the niee out before brsakfast**
Tkther got up front the table and went into the other roon, and ^y Brother
J(ha, and X spent the rest at the nomiag lai^^iiag about it* Tkthm^ eould not
see the Joke and said he would like to get even with John for so aueh laughing*
The next morning. Post hole Jack killed an «Bu>naous rattle snake Just out
side the front door* This rattle snake we oarefully ooiled
on the door sill
md thm mlled to ay broiler to oene out ami see the son rise* John was wear
ing a long shite night shirt, the first ever seen in our part of the oountry
and when he opened the low door and stepped out in his bare feet to gase at
ths glorious noming sun Just appeariag above the distant nountain, his bare
foot rested squarely on the dead rattle snake* wyi an unearthly scream, his
hand hit the top of the door sill and the next noneat he was hopping around in
the dewy grass in front of the house* Bost Hole Jack rushed op with a olub and
�I - exaTKuag a oaxxxo rancn
pouxided the aaake dead, idiile I slipped over to iqr hrether «sd showed
a
little spot above his ankle where the snake aust have bitten hisu Very ttn-ilTr-
ly. Jack and Z eseorted ay imfcHrtiiBate brother into -tiie hoasa end pat Idn to
bed. I asked .Mok to find sone oaotus as qulokly as he oould, while I laotted
a stroae oord very tightly around brother's li^ at the knee to prevent the
poison from rea<diiag his heart. Thon wo split the oaotus and bandaged up the
leg vMle Post Hole suggeMrted ‘teat perhaps we should kill a ohlcken as the
fresh blood fron the ohioken might help draw out the poison. I had made the
bsn^ige so tight that his foot was eoeiaeneing to swell and wy father was gett»
Ing terribly worried and thought vw should send to Fetteman right aaay fbr Dr.
Mrber. I finally took ny father outside, aade him {sroedse aoareay and told hi*
it was all a joke, that the snake had been dead sens tins before, John stepped
OB it. Father thought we were oarryiag Idle j<d» too far. but in those days
real aanoesNBt had to be hone«nade and Peat Bole desk and I were having so mueh
fun out of it that we kept it up sens time.
Along toward noon, we made ny brother a pair of emtohes from soim old
Indian ti^ee poles, making one oruteh several inohm shorter they, the ether,
and in the ev« aing he was able to hobble around a little, but oould graphloally
desoribe just how it felt to have the rattle snake poison workis^
his left
side toward his heart. It took him several days to reoover from this rattle
snake bite, but he ms always very proud of it and later oa glowingly piotured
all his smisations to Dr. Barber and others at Fetteman. Of oourse they knew
the real inside of the story but would egg him on as his desoriptloos were
trul^ thrilling.
The gradual buildln; up of the ranch ms a souros of kesa
oourse -ttie work was frequmtly disooura^ng and tdw workiag hours vary
of
�8 • Starting a cattle ranoh
bttt tlMi 4«jr of tra&sfttndoK the 4oo«rt woto lato floltfo of wRving grain and
■f
alfalfh la truly wondorful and inspiring* Aa the yaara amt ty, the is^rovonants inereaaad along with the oattie and may visitors enjoyed life with us
during the swaner oonths*
There ws so auoh garae in the country with no nearby indueesient to spend
laoney* that aetual naming expenses were very low, so in the eourae of three
brief years our rancdi on the laiddy had gmrwn to be quite an attraoUve plate
and I deeidf^ to go baoh to Nahamaka and bring out a aohool mana to <to the
otM^Lag* This prove: to be the wisest anve I ever node* She is here with ne
today* after 44 years assistance in buildiag up «iit partioular cattle nmoh*
and I tn sure it enjoying ^8 old-tiaer’s eelebratitm at nueh aa asqr of iiie
rest of US*
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(The above is part of an address delivered by foraanr Gov* B* B* Breeks
at the Old Tiatr*t reunion at the ^aaalng state fair at Oou^^las in Septe^er
of 1930* It hM been espied from the Tribuno-IIerald, Septe* 21, 1930* p* 3.)
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Part of an address delivered by Wyoming Governor Bryant Butler "B.B." Brooks. His address was given at the Old Timer's reunion at the 1930 Wyoming State Fair in Douglas, Wyoming. This address is found in the the Articles, Bulletins, Compliments, Correspondence and Speeches series of the Alfred J. Mokler Papers. At the collection-level the the Alfred J. Mokler Papers consist of holograph manuscripts, which is to say, manuscripts written in the author's hand, and typescripts from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writer's Project which date to the 1930's. Much of this material may be found in Mokler's notebooks. In addition, researchers will find Mokler's unpublished typescript of a Chronology of Wyoming written for the Works Progress Administration. Material from some of these pages was used in Wyoming: A Guide to its History, Highways, and People. Mokler's papers also consist of approximately 300 original photographs, many of which were used in his publications. There are 15 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, personal diaries and yearbooks, and 10 Letterboxes, of which contain publications and other materials Mokler collected as well as correspondence. Copies of Annals of Wyoming and books from Mokler's library were also gifted to the repository. Researchers will find a lot of Casper and Natrona County history in Mokler's papers.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming
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Starting a Cattle Ranch in Wyoming
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'1/Vasp
Grace iHolloway
Non-Fiction
In the right tail light of my dad’s car is a wasp. Sun bleached: it lies
preserved in the tomb that it died in. He told me it had been there since the day
he got the car,
“Do you see it?” He said as he pointed to the mummified body.
It lay there in all its seemingly unmemorable pointless glory, and it still
does. The only difference is the belated knowledge I have of its existence and
the stripes that were once black on its fragile body were now a faded gray. It
has accompanied me hundreds and thousands of miles, from the time I was
stuck strictly to the role of back seat passenger to now. It remains the same,
with a different driver, and consequently, what must seem to the wasp like an
unusually cruel eternal damnation in a layer of hell that plays the same pop
music on repeat.
I never met the wasp. Our introduction may be better defined as a
viewing of an exhibit. It felt as unnerving as the mummy exhibit I had gone
to as a child, something not meant to be seen in the state it is in. Maybe this
wasp was a powerful political figure in its nest and went out to campaign,
maybe it was a famous philosopher, or some nut job that every other wasp
would whisper about to each other with a judgmental side eye. I cannot begin
to understand what it was, but it remains what it is in my eyes. In passing, I
may not acknowledge its existence, but knowing it was once living and now
dead attaches me to it with a conceptual empathetic humanism I have never
understood before. The last time I encountered a wasp on such an intimate
level it stung me, yet I still allow this one to occupy my mind with grace, not
holding the grudge of its seven-times-removed great, great, great grandchild
that harmed me.
Would it still hold all the meaning it does if I had seen it alive? It might not have
held its place in my thoughts if I had seen it dead on the ground. Somehow,
the perfect preservation of its death is what connects me to it on such a deep
level. I draw parallels between myself and the corpse in the taillight, a relic of
its own time, and now mine. At a point in history, it was living, existing in the
world to give and take as needed. Then it died, what I can only imagine was
a suffocating, terrifying death, encased somewhere unknown and unable to
escape. Whether it entered on its own or the time and place had perfectly
aligned to seal its fate, its death was certified and inevitable. The wasp had no
choice, but it knew no better than any other, Was it wishing it had lived
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In the right tail light of my dad’s car is a wasp. Sun bleached: it lies
preserved in the tomb that it died in. He told me it had been there since the day
he got the car,
"Do you see it?” He said as he pointed to the mummified body.
It lay there in all its seemingly unmemorable pointless glory, and it still
does. The only difference is the belated knowledge I have of its existence and
the stripes that were once black on its fragile body were now a faded gray. It
has accompanied me hundreds and thousands of miles, from the time I was
stuck strictly to the role of back seat passenger to now. It remains the same,
with a different driver, and consequently, what must seem to the wasp like an
unusually cruel eternal damnation in a layer of hell that plays the same pop
music on repeat.
I never met the wasp. Our introduction may be better defined as a
viewing of an exhibit. It felt as unnerving as the mummy exhibit I had gone
to as a child, something not meant to be seen in the state it is in. Maybe this
wasp was a powerful political figure in its nest and went out to campaign,
maybe it was a famous philosopher, or some nut job that every other wasp
would whisper about to each other with a judgmental side eye. I cannot begin
to understand what it was, but it remains what it is in my eyes. In passing, I
may not acknowledge its existence, but knowing it was once living and now
dead attaches me to it with a conceptual empathetic humanism I have never
understood before. The last time I encountered a wasp on such an intimate
level it stung me, yet 1 still allow this one to occupy my mind with grace, not
holding the grudge of its seven-times-removed great, great, great grandchild
that harmed me.
Would it still hold all the meaning it does if I had seen it alive? It might not have
held its place in my thoughts if I had seen it dead on the ground. Somehow,
the perfect preservation of its death is what connects me to it on such a deep
level. I draw parallels between myself and the corpse in the taillight, a relic of
its own time, and now mine. At a point in history, it was living, existing in the
world to give and take as needed. Then it died, what I can only imagine was
a suffocating, terrifying death, encased somewhere unknown and unable to
escape. Whether it entered on its own or the time and place had perfectly
aligned to seal its fate, its death was certified and inevitable. The wasp had
no choice, but it knew no better than any other. Was it wishing it had lived
differently, thought differently, or been more than it was? Maybe its spirit now
looked over its own body and thought,
“What I wouldn't give to be in my hive this Sunday,” Only able to hear
itself.
LIV
(ixpiission Magazine
�Wasp
Living in a little town, growing up under a corner streetlight that made
itself known with its pale glow and incessant hum. It makes the ten-foot radius
around it feel like some kind of obscure liminal space. I understand that wasp
more than most people could. I live day to day, just as it did, unwavering in the
routine of my survival. Maybe this town is my taillight, where I’m trapped, rarely
seen, and most days forgotten—doomed to the same fate. Left knowing that
in the end, no one was coming to save me. Or maybe the wasp has remained
there to be some kind of motivational support while also rolling its eyes and
muttering,
"You’re dramatic, it could be worse. I mean, look at me.”
There’s a beauty in it, even if to some it seems strange and macabre.
Morbid as it may be, the wasp calms me. It is stuck, riding along the same
streets, seeing the same scenes, in Wyoming, of all places it could’ve possibly
been. It is confined to my life and my experiences, yet I believe it has made
itself at home with me. A sense of comfort has formed between us, each
knowing the other is there—even if one of us is just a dead bug.
Despite our wasp and human language barrier, and my lack of insect
clairvoyance, the appreciation for each other’s existence persists, even in
its unspoken state. The wasp and I have an immortal attachment it remains
unaware of. I’d like to believe that I could’ve shown it something the way it has
shown me life through its ending, but I don’t know if that kind of thing would
really matter to a wasp as much as I wish it would.
I like to refer to it as the Grandfather Wasp, an integral part of its
quiddity, preserving my perception of the world in its tiny, delicate form. It
reminds me of the experience of existing, the lack of control every living being
has over its own life, and how it all is intertwined. With or without me everything
remains, and my significance can only be what is allowed. Even in what may
seem like an insignificant form to something greater, I remain appreciated.
I’ve learned a specific type of forgiveness for life through those faded gray
and yellow stripes, one that allows me to exist as I am, without focusing on
everything I should be.
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Grace Holloway
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Bade to the. ‘Vyind
H Ruckle
I see now that I need to go
When dawn glows new I’ll fly away
Through crossroads and branches hanging low
I cannot say what I’ll find in hope
Or when you call what I’ll have to say
But I see now that I need to go
The horizon beckons over its gentle slope
I can feel that beyond it excitement awaits
Through crossroads and branches hanging low
This place has given me all it can show
I’ve learned all the secrets these streets contain
And I see now that I need to go
I’ll travel the river if I can find a boat
And quickly pass by the past’s remains
Beside crossroads and branches hanging low
Maybe someday the wind will whisper across the wings of a crow
And call you so strong you decide not to stay
But I see now that I need to go
Through crossroads and branches hanging low
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Soaked St^iands
H Ruckle
Heart strings are guided best by practiced hands
I'm no macrame master, more of a seif taught student
The knots I make are ugly, tangled and untamed
Beautiful as old shoelaces displayed by a golden tapestry
Some sections I’ve pulled too tight
Cutting off the flow of blood
Others I’ve left unkempt and gaunt
Split ends like hair uncut
The few patterns I try to form
Are frayed and forever in disarray
Abandoned like the gutted, unsanded corpse
Of a wooden bowl left half unmade
My hands sit still like a boat on stormy seas
Mutilation would be the proper word
If I attempted anything as delicate
As stitching up my mistakes
I would stain the heart strings even worse than before
With what remains soaked in crimson, cracking rust
Black and blue might provide the uneasy contrast
A sight as entrancing as a car crashed in a ditch
Yet somehow, after years working over the same raw spots
The practice I’ve done away from eyes too quick to judge
While not the work of masters or shimmering like gold
Is beyond what I imagined I could achieve at the start
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Ta TThamcvCb it Mau Cancem
H Ruckle
With all due respect
Of which there is none, you see
I hope your day’s bad
64th CdUUnUteiatieu.
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