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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: conversation: you do not want too much of it; but if it is
altogether omitted, everything tastes flat. I remember well the
evening when he told me the story of the Sheep of the Wilderness.
"I was ill that summer," said he, "and the doctor had ordered me to
go into the woods, but on no account to go without plenty of fresh
meat, which was essential to my recovery. So we set out into the
wild country north of Georgian Bay, taking a live sheep with us in
order to be sure that the doctor's prescription might be faithfully
followed. It was a young and innocent little beast, curling itself
up at my feet in the canoe, and following me about on shore like a
dog. I gathered grass every day to feed it, and carried it in my
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