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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: affection for the donor."
VIII
The time to track hares is after a fall of snow deep enough to conceal
the ground completely. As long as there are black patches intermixed,
the hare will be hard to find. It is true that outside these the
tracks will remain visible for a long time, when the snow comes down
with a north wind blowing, because the snow does not melt immediately;
but if the wind be mild with gleams of sunshine, they will not last
long, because the snow is quickly thawed. When it snows steadily and
without intermission there is nothing to be done; the tracks will be
covered up. Nor, again, if there be a strong wind blowing, which will
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