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 "id": "james-mcintyre/seal-fishing-and-hunting",
 "title": "Seal Fishing and Hunting",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Where frosts doth northern bays congeal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There you will find the finest seal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They do pursue them o’er each bay",
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   {
    "text": "From early dawn till close of day.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "The Indians display great zeal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Engaged in hunting of the seal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And ladies love for to display",
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   {
    "text": "Their seal furs from this famous bay.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Most precious of all furs is seal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their flesh is good as finest veal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the seal it is a squatter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lives on either land or water.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "The Indian boys happy feel,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When they capture the young seal,",
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   {
    "text": "They do seem so happy ever,",
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    "text": "Sailing o’er each bay and river.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "They train them their canoes to tow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And o’er the waters merry go,",
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   {
    "text": "Full quick to right or left they wheel,",
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   {
    "text": "Guided by reins the docile seal.",
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   {
    "text": "Like lad on colt without a saddle,",
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   {
    "text": "These youths use no oar nor paddle,",
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   {
    "text": "But swift o’er water rushes keel,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For ’tis propelled by the fast seal.",
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   {
    "text": "To Uncle Sam we do appeal,",
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   {
    "text": "How can you own the whole sea’s seal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And at the same time claim our cod,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If from the shore a mile abroad.",
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