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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: the most important "uplift" symptom of a generation,
and as an excuse for his own existence.
Immediately before us were the village baseball grounds.
And now came the sportive youth of Fishampton and
distributed themselves, shouting, about the diamond.
"There," said the sociologist, pointing, "there is young
Van Plushvelt."
I raised myself (so far a cosycophant with Mary Ann)
and gazed.
Young Van Plushvelt sat upon the ground. He was
dressed in a ragged red sweater, wrecked and weather-
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