Let a Christian hunter
go to the Lord’s woods
and kill his well-kept beasts,
or wild Indians, and it is well;
but let an enterprising specimen
of these proper, predestined victims
go to houses and fields
and kill the most worthless person
of the vertical godlike killers,
–oh! that is horribly unorthodox,
and on the part of the Indians,
atrocious murder!
Well, I have precious little sympathy
for the selfish propriety of civilized man,
and if a war of races should occur
between the wild beasts and Lord Man,
I would be tempted to sympathize
with the bears.
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