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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: filthy beggar. We fined him ten times the value of the pigs, and
made him move on with his mob. Oh, they're a sweet lot, I must
say, at least sixty of them, in five big canoes, and out for
trouble. They've got a dozen Sniders that ought to be
confiscated."
"Why didn't you?" Joan asked.
"And have a row on my hands with the Commissioner? He's terribly
touchy about his black wards, as he calls them. Well, we started
them along their way, though they went in on the beach to kai-kai
several miles back. They ought to pass here some time to-day."
Two hours later the canoes arrived. No one saw them come. The
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