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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: to be about."
"It is," said the Lad who fiddled for the Jew in the
bramble-bush, "about--
Ill-Luck and the Fiddler
Once upon a time St. Nicholas came down into the world to take a
peep at the old place and see how things looked in the
spring-time. On he stepped along the road to the town where he
used to live, for he had a notion to find out whether things were
going on nowadays as they one time did. By-and-by he came to a
cross-road, and who should he see sitting there but Ill-Luck
himself. Ill-Luck's face was as gray as ashes, and his hair as
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