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Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go / By the pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale below. / Yearly by Muttianee he follows our white men in -- / Matun, the old blind beggar, bandaged from brow to chin.
Eyeless, noseless, and lipless -- toothless, broken of speech. / Seeking a dole at the doorway he mumbles his tale to each; / Over and over the story, ending as he began: / ‘Make ye no truce with Adam-zad -- the Bear that walks like a man!