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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: young man'; recommended to gentlemen for `advice, as he's a
stranger in your place, and indeed to this kind of charge,
this being his first outset as Foreman'; and for a long while
after, the letter-book, in the midst of that thrilling first
year of the Bell Rock, is encumbered with pages of instruction
and encouragement. The nature of a bill, and the precautions
that are to be observed about discounting it, are expounded at
length and with clearness. `You are not, I hope, neglecting,
Charles, to work the harbour at spring-tides; and see that you
pay the greatest attention to get the well so as to supply the
keeper with water, for he is a very helpless fellow, and so
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