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Updated: May 15, 2025

An' yet, son, this voylent person in buckskins is a Second Lootenant-a mere boy, he is-from West P'int; while that outcast in the reedic'lous hat is foaled on the plains an' never does go that clost to the risin' sun as to glimpse the Old Missouri.

Alfred Henry Lewis - How The Raven Died: 1902, From "Wolfville Nights"