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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: desert, where nothing was to be seen but gray rocks and weeds and
thistles.
"Well," said the fisherman, "I have fished, man and boy, for
forty-seven years, but never did I see as unlikely a place to
catch anything as this."
But the old man said never a word. First of all he drew a great
circle with strange figures, marking it with his finger upon the
ground. Then out from under his red gown he brought a tinder-box
and steel, and a little silver casket covered all over with
strange figures of serpents and dragons and what not. He brought
some sticks of spice-wood from his pouch, and then he struck a
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