“It was jest another instance of a flaw in work of man;
A lefty never figgered in the gunman’s battle plan;
There ain’t no scheme man thinks of that Dame Nature cannot beat —
So his pupils are unlearnin’ that cute trick they got from Pete.”

— Arthur Chapman (poet)

Pete's Error http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#PETE, st. 4.
Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#outbk (1917)

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American poet and newspaper columnist 1873–1935

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