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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: into him afore we get through with him."
Some more of the settlers had come out from the shore to the end
of the wharf, and there was now quite a crowd gathering there,
all looking at the men in the boat. "What do them Virginny
'baccy-eaters do down here in Caroliny, anyway?" said one of the
newcomers. "They've got no call to be down here in North Caroliny
waters."
"Maybe you can keep us away from coming, and maybe you can't,"
said a voice from the boat.
"Why," answered the man on the wharf, "we could keep you away
easy enough, but you ben't worth the trouble, and that's the
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