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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: In vain he hopped and howled and begged for mercy, in vain he
tried to defend himself; the three never stopped until he fell to
the ground, and laid there panting and sighing and groaning; and
then they left and flew back with the iron candlestick and the
magic carpet to the old man again. At last, after a great while,
the young spendthrift sat up, rubbing the sore places; but when
he looked around not a sign was to be seen of anything but the
stony desert, without a house or a man in sight.
Perhaps, after a long time, he found his way home again, and
perhaps the drubbing he had had taught him wisdom; the first is a
likely enough thing to happen, but as for the second, it would
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