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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: of Alderney cows which Old Whateley had bought of his son Curtis.
This marked the beginning of a course of cattle-buying on the
part of small Wilbur's family which ended only in 1928, when the
Dunwich horror came and went; yet at no time did the ramshackle
Wateley barn seem overcrowded with livestock. There came a period
when people were curious enough to steal up and count the herd
that grazed precariously on the steep hillside above the old farm-house,
and they could never find more than ten or twelve anaemic, bloodless-looking
specimens. Evidently some blight or distemper, perhaps sprung
from the unwholesome pasturage or the diseased fungi and timbers
of the filthy barn, caused a heavy mortality amongst the Whateley
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