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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Reed glanced frantically toward the flood up stream.
"Come," said Orde, taking him gently by the arm. "There's no reason
you and I shouldn't get along together all right. Maybe we're both
a little hard-headed. Let's talk it over."
He led the old man ashore, and out of earshot of the rivermen.
At the end of ten minutes he returned.
"War's over, boys!" he shouted cheerfully. "Get in and break that
jam."
At once the crew swarmed across the log barrier to a point above the
centre pier. This they attacked with their peavies, rolling the top
logs off into the current below. In less than no time they had torn
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