What awaits most of the characters in these stories is the hazards counted by Mrs . Freeze in " Pair a Spurs, " when she traces a four-mile distance in her mind : " Rattlesnake, gopher hole, spooked horse, heatstroke, heart attack, lightning bolt ."
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"Bumping heads with wild animals is a problem that isn't going to go away, " he observed . " Loss of wild habitat has been causing conflicts between man and beast ever since some Pilgrim built the first log cabin atop a gopher hole ."
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Then Grant Potulny, the only non-Minnesotan on the roster, popped a power-play rebound past goalie Matt Yeats after 16 : 58 of OT and folks in every Gopher hole from Embarrass to Climax ( yes, they're actual places ) jumped up whooping with joy and relief.