The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: get lost, and I'm more likely to find Button-Bright than any of you."
Without waiting for permission, she darted away through the trees and
soon disappeared from their view.
"Dorothy," said Toto, squatting beside his little mistress, "I've lost
my growl."
"How did that happen?" she asked.
"I don't know," replied Toto. "Yesterday morning the Woozy nearly
stepped on me, and I tried to growl at him and found I couldn't growl
a bit."
"Can you bark?" inquired Dorothy.
"Oh, yes indeed."
 The Lost Princess of Oz |