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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: book not being a history but only a tale, the majority
of the historian's frank details were too strong for
reproduction in it. - EDITOR]
CHAPTER XXIII.
RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN
SATURDAY noon I went to the well and looked on
a while. Merlin was still burning smoke-powders,
and pawing the air, and muttering gibberish as hard as
ever, but looking pretty down-hearted, for of course
he had not started even a perspiration in that well yet.
Finally I said:
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