Rough Cut tragic wisdom

Some of these old beaver, and they're old beaver,
they've been trapped and . . .
well the one up by Iron Pond
has been caught in a trap,
and lost a front foot.
You might as well get 'em out,
usually they're getting a little age on them.
They're gonna die, someday same as anybody else . . .
Well these beaver up through here
they've been trapped
for the last ten, twelve years,
and Walter's, uh, he's smartened up a lot of them . . .
They just get smart, that's all.
You take these old beaver like that
they're usually old ones that get cagey like that,
it ain't the young ones--
they're on their way out anyway.
They're gonna die, there's no question about it.
Their day is pretty short
just the same as me and everybody else.
I mean that's something you can't get away from
is death and taxes.
The animals and all, they can get away from the taxes
but they can't get away from death.