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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: barrels or so broke the market and forced him to disgorge his
stock at a loss. After that he located at Sheep Camp, organized
the professional packers, and jumped the freight ten cents a pound
in a single day. In token of their gratitude, the packers
patronized his faro and roulette layouts and were mulcted
cheerfully of their earnings. But his commercialism was of too
lusty a growth to be long endured; so they rushed him one night,
burned his shanty, divided the bank, and headed him up the trail
with empty pockets.
Ill-luck was his running mate. He engaged with responsible
parties to run whisky across the line by way of precarious and
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