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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: path on the pine-needles and grass, and small bushes pressed to the ground,
plainly marked the trail. But search as I might, I could not find the track
of the animal that had dragged off the deer. After following the trail for
a few rods, I decided to return to camp and cook breakfast before going any
farther. While I was at it I cut many thin slices of venison, and, after
roasting them, I stored them away in the capacious pocket of my coat.
My breakfast finished, I again set out to see what had become of the
remains of the deer. In two or three places the sharp hoofs had cut lines
in the soft earth, and there were tufts of whitish-gray hair elsewhere. A
hundred yards or more down the hollow I came to a bare spot where recently
there had been a pool of water. Here I found cat tracks as large as my two
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