American frontiersman Jim Bridger was fond of telling a tale of an encounter with wolves in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana. It was in 1829 as Bridger was setting his beaver traps that he was jumped by a pack of wolves. Bridger ran for his life and managed to climb to safety in a nearby tree. After milling about for a while, all the wolves but one, who stayed behind as a guard, departed. In an hour or so the pack returned with a beaver which they forced to fell Bridger's tree. When queried as to what happened next, the Old Mountain Man replied, "Why they et me, of course!"

Metaphorically, we can be as amusing as the tall tale telling frontiersman, as practical as the beaver, and as resourceful as the wolves. Practically,

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