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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: of money that I can give you, and so you will have to be content
with what I can afford. See, here is a little pebble, and its
like is not to be found in the seven kingdoms, for whoever holds
it in his mouth can hear while he does so all that the birds and
the beasts say to one another. Take it--it is yours, and, if you
use it wisely, it may bring you a fortune.
The servant would rather have had the money in hand than the
magic pebble, but, as nothing better was to be had, he took the
little stone, and, bidding his master good-bye, trudged out into
the world, to seek his fortune. Well, he jogged on and on, paying
his way with the few pennies he had saved in his seven years of
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