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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: Richard Surtees, Esq. of Mainsforth, author of the HISTORY OF THE
BISHOPRIC OF DURHAM.
According to this well-attested legend, two young Northumbrians
were out on a shooting party, and had plunged deep among the
mountainous moorlands which border on Cumberland. They stopped
for refreshment in a little secluded dell by the side of a
rivulet. There, after they had partaken of such food as they
brought with them, one of the party fell asleep; the other,
unwilling to disturb his friend's repose, stole silently out of
the dell with the purpose of looking around him, when he was
astonished to find himself close to a being who seemed not to
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