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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: funny" that they should have lost a plate. As for hay, the
whole party refused to bring us any till they should have
supped. See how late they were! Never had there been such a
job as coming up that grade! Nor often, I suspect, such a
game of poker as that before they started. But about nine,
as a particular favour, we should have some hay.
So they took their departure, leaving me still staring, and
we resigned ourselves to wait for their return. The fire in
the forge had been suffered to go out, and we were one and
all too weary to kindle another. We dined, or, not to take
that word in vain, we ate after a fashion, in the nightmare
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