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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: the wash, others still thrown up and sucked back by each wave,
others again rising and falling in the billows. This wreckage
constituted a miscellaneous jumble, although most of it was lumber
from the deck-loads of the vessels. Intermingled with the split and
broken yellow boards were bits of carving and of painted wood.
Carroll saw one piece half buried in the sand which bore in gilt two
huge letters, A R. A little farther, bent and twisted, projected
the ornamental spear which had pointed the way before the steamer's
bow. Portions of the usual miscellaneous freight cargo carried on
every voyage were scattered along the shore--boxes, barrels, and
crates. Five or six men had rolled a whisky barrel beyond the reach
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