The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: On his bald head was perched a little, round, red cap held in place by
a rubber elastic underneath his chin. His face was round, his eyes a
faded blue, and he wore white cotton gloves. The man leaned on a
stout gold-headed cane, bending forward on his seat to watch his
visitors approach.
Singularly enough, the musical sounds they had heard seemed to come
from the inside of the fat man himself; for he was playing no
instrument nor was any to be seen near him.
They came up and stood in a row, staring at him, and he stared back
while the queer sounds came from him as before:
Tiddle-iddle-iddle, oom pom-pom,
 The Road to Oz |