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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: have I been conscious of a stranger thrill than when I raised
that singular creature from the stones, dry as a board, his
innocent heart long quiet, and all warm with sunshine. His
long hind legs were stiff, his tiny forepaws clutched upon
his breast, as if to leap; his poor life cut short upon that
mountain by some unknown accident. But the kangaroo rat, it
proved, was no such unknown animal; and my discovery was
nothing.
Crickets were not wanting. I thought I could make out
exactly four of them, each with a corner of his own, who used
to make night musical at Silverado. In the matter of voice,
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