Brother David

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    Then gently scan your brother Man,
    Still gentler sister Woman;
    Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
    To step aside is human:
    Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man,—he had so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here,—a Canadian, a woodchopper and post-maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, who made his last supper on a woodchuck which his dog caught.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)