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Ah, Almon Keefer! what a boy you were, / With your back-tilted hat and careless hair, / And open, honest, fresh, fair face and eyes / With their all-varying looks of pleased surprise / And joyous interest in flower and tree, / And poising humming-bird, and maundering bee.
The fields and woods he knew; the tireless tramp / With gun and dog; and the night-fisher's camp -- / No other boy, save Bee Lineback, had won / Such brilliant mastery of rod and gun.