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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: ain't all we're going to find out," said the Virginian. "Ounces
had a good idea; but I reckon he made a bad mistake later."
We had found out a good deal without any more, I thought. Ounces
had gone to bring in their single horse, and coming upon three
more in the pasture had undertaken to catch one and failed,
merely driving them where he feared to follow.
"Shorty never could rope a horse alone," I remarked.
The Virginian grinned. "Shorty? Well, Shorty sounds as well as
Ounces. But that ain't the mistake I'm thinking he made."
I knew that he would not tell me, but that was just like him. For
the last twenty minutes, having something to do, he had become
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