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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: possible the line of waggon rails. Thus, if water were to be
drawn, the water-carrier left the house along some tilting
planks that we had laid down, and not laid down very well.
These carried him to that great highroad, the railway; and
the railway served him as far as to the head of the shaft.
But from thence to the spring and back again he made the best
of his unaided way, staggering among the stones, and wading
in low growth of the calcanthus, where the rattlesnakes lay
hissing at his passage. Yet I liked to draw water. It was
pleasant to dip the gray metal pail into the clean,
colourless, cool water; pleasant to carry it back, with the
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