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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: Iván Sergéyevitch had no luck, and was envying my
father's good fortune all the time. At last, when it was beginning
to get dark, a woodcock flew over Turgénieff, and he shot
it.
"Killed it?" called out my father.
"Fell like a stone; send your dog to pick him up," answered
Iván Sergéyevitch.
My father sent us with the dog, Turgénieff showed us
where to look for the bird; but search as we might, and the dog,
too, there was no woodcock to be found. At last Turgénieff
came to help, and my father came; there was no woodcock there.
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