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THE PUDDING MASTER OF	A
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STANLEY BASIN	B
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Tree snow and rock beginnings the mountain in back of the	C
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lake promised us eternity but the lake itself was filled with	D
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thousands of silly minnows swimming close to the shore	E
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and busy putting in hours of Mack Sennett time	F
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The minnows were an Idaho tourist attraction They	G
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should have been made into a National Monument Swimming	H
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close to shore like children they believed in their own im	I
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mortality	J
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A third year student in engineering at the University of	A
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Montana attempted to catch some of the minnows but he went	K
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about it all wrong So did the children who came on the	C
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Fourth of July weekend	L
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The children waded out into the lake and tried to catch the	C
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minnows with their hands They also used milk cartons and	M
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plastic bags They presented the lake with hours of human	B
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effort Their total catch was one minnow It jumped out of a	C
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can full of water on their table and died under the table gasp	N
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ing for watery breath while their mother fried eggs on the	C
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Coleman stove	O
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The mother apologized She was supposed to be watching	H
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the fish THIS IS MY EARTHLY FAILURE holding the	C
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dead fish by the tail the fish taking all the bows like a young	P
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Jewish comedian talking about Adlai Stevenson	B
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The third year student in engineering at the University of	A
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Montana took a tin can and punched an elaborate design of	A
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holes in the can the design running around and around in	Q
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circles like a dog with a fire hydrant in its mouth Then he	J
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attached some string to the can and put a huge salmon egg	R
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and a piece of Swiss cheese in the can After two hours of	A
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intimate and universal failure he went back to Missoula	C
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Montana	C
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The woman who travels with me discovered the best way	G
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to catch the minnows She used a large pan that had in its	S
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bottom the dregs of a distant vanilla pudding She put the	C
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pan in the shallow water along the shore and instantly hun	B
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dreds of minnows gathered around Then mesmerized by	T
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the vanilla pudding they swam like a children's crusade	U
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into the pan She caught twenty fish with one dip She put	V
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the pan full of fish on the shore and the baby played with	D
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the fish for an hour	W
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We watched the baby to make sure she was just leaning	H
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on them a little We didn't want her to kill any of them be	J
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cause she was too young	P
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Instead of making her furry sound she adapted rapidly	J
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to the difference between animals and fish and was soon	X
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making a silver sound	Y
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She caught one of the fish with her hand and looked at it	Z
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for a while We took the fish out of her hand and put it back	A2
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into the pan After a while she was putting the fish back by	T
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herself	B2
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Then she grew tired of this She tipped the pan over and	M
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a dozen fish flopped out onto the shore The children's game	C2
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and the banker's game she picked up those silver things	D2
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one at a time and put them back in the pan There was still	E2
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a little water in it The fish liked this You could tell	F2
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When she got tired of the fish we put them back in the	C
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lake and they were all quite alive but nervous I doubt if	G2
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they will ever want vanilla pudding again	H2

Richard Brautigan

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