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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: worth. But if he stands on the branches an' you come up close he might bat
you one. Mebbe I'd better go up."
"Oh, I'm going--I only wanted to know what to expect. Now, in case I get
above him, what then?"
"Make him back down till he reaches these first branches. When he gets so
far I'll tell you what to do." I put my arm through the coil of rope, and,
slinging it snugly over my shoulder, began to climb the pine. It was the
work of only a moment to reach the first branch.
"Wal, I reckon you're some relation to a squirrel at thet," said Hiram
Bent. "Jest as I thought the little cuss is climbin' higher. Thet's goin'
to worry us."
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