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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: Rivington and I went east in a Forty-second street car
and then south on the Third avenue line.
At Houston street we got off and walked.
"We are now on the famous Bowery," said Rivington;
"the Bowery celebrated in song and story."
We passed block after block of "gents'" furnishing
stores -- the windows full of shirts with prices attached
and cuffs inside. In other windows were neckties and
no shirts. People walked up and down the sidewalks.
"In some ways," said I, "this reminds me of Koko-
mono, Ind., during the peach-crating season."
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