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 "id": "james-mcintyre/bear-and-buzzsaw",
 "title": "Bear and Buzzsaw",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "A Saw Mill Yarn",
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "sequence": 86,
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "sources": [
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   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "I owned sawmill in Michigan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which by water power ran;",
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   {
    "text": "Buzzsaw possessed mighty power,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thousands of feet it cut each hour.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Mills could compete with it were few,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It cut plank that were four feet through;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Most of the mills were drove by steam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But mine was drove by a big stream.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "One morning when I started mill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With wonder soon my mind doth fill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For I was there then all alone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With fear I was forced to groan,",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "When I saw big bear touch its paw",
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   {
    "text": "Against the swift running buzzsaw;",
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   {
    "text": "Its foot in moment it did tear,",
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   {
    "text": "And this it did enrage the bear.",
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   {
    "text": "The bear was now roused to fury,",
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   {
    "text": "It would be both judge and jury;",
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   {
    "text": "Rushing on it with open jaws,",
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   {
    "text": "And for to crush it with its paws.",
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   {
    "text": "Most wondrous sight I ever saw,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It cut through centre of its jaw;",
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   {
    "text": "Saw’s speed for moment did not fail,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cutting through its back bone and tail.",
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   {
    "text": "In two the bear it did divide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One half did lay upon each side;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Carcass we froze and fresh bear steak",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We enjoyed many a week.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "We sewed together the bear’s hide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where the saw did skin divide;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In winter warmly now I ride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Neath bear skin famous far and wide.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Mill cogs and shafts they ran with ease",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When lubricated with bear’s grease;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I never shall forget strange freak,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Brought nie bear’s skin and grease and steak.",
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