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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: So he brought it to the house, and, taking down his axe, began to
split it up for kindling. The very first blow he gave, out
tumbled the bag of money.
But the beggar--well, by-and-by his grieving got better of its
first smart, and then he started off down the river to see if he
could not find his money again. He hunted up and he hunted down,
but never a whit of it did he see, and at last he stopped at the
rich man's house and begged for a bite to eat and lodgings for
the night. There he told all his story--how he had hidden the
money that had been given him from his brother, how his brother
had broken off the branch and had thrown it away, and how he had
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