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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: still for a moment, before wading out, and make sure at least of
the fish that tempted you into your predicament.
But Rocky Run, they say, exists no longer. It has been blasted by
miners out of all resemblance to itself, and bewitched into a dingy
water-power to turn wheels for the ugly giant, Trade. It is only
in the valley of remembrance that its current still flows like
liquid air; and only in that country that you can still see the
famous men who came and went along the banks of the Lyocoming when
the boy was there.
There was Collins, who was a wondrous adept at "daping, dapping, or
dibbling" with a grasshopper, and who once brought in a string of
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