The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: shine, Jonathan Trumbull went for the morning
mail, and gained thereby a queer negative enjoy-
ment of a perfectly useless duty performed. Johnny
watched his uncle draw near to the house, and cruelly
reflected how unlike Robin Hood he must be. He
even wondered if his uncle could possibly have read
Robin Hood and still show absolutely no result in his
own personal appearance. He knew that he, Johnny,
could not walk to the post-office and back, even with
the drawback of a dripping old umbrella instead of
a bow and arrow, without looking a bit like Robin
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