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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: "O, _I_ don't think of them; I don't go in for manual labour,"
said the little man proudly. "But if a man don't mind that, he's
pretty sure of a job there."
"By George, you tell me where to go!" cried Carthew, rising.
The heavy rains continued, the country was already overrun
with floods; the railway system daily required more hands,
daily the superintendent advertised; but "the unemployed"
preferred the resources of charity and rapine, and a navvy, even
an amateur navvy, commanded money in the market. The
same night, after a tedious journey, and a change of trains to
pass a landslip, Norris found himself in a muddy cutting
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