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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: boxes that are contained in your cart, each marked with its
individual label, and by the good Flemish mare you drive, that
you occupy the post of carrier in that great English system of
transport which, with all its defects, is the pride of our
country.'
'Yes, sir,' returned Mr Chandler vaguely, for he hardly knew what
to reply; 'them parcels posts has done us carriers a world of
harm.'
'I am not a prejudiced man,' continued Joseph Finsbury. 'As a
young man I travelled much. Nothing was too small or too obscure
for me to acquire. At sea I studied seamanship, learned the
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