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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: a'. Deil o' me wad care muckle, only I wanted some venison to
our auld gude-dame. The carline, she sits in the neuk yonder,
upbye, and cracks about the grand shooters and hunters lang syne
--Odd, I think they hae killed a' the deer in the country, for my
part."
"Well, Hobbie, I have shot a fat buck, and sent him to Earnscliff
this morning--you shall have half of him for your grandmother."
"Mony thanks to ye, Mr. Patrick, ye're kend to a' the country for
a kind heart. It will do the auld wife's heart gude--mair by
token, when she kens it comes frae you--and maist of a' gin ye'll
come up and take your share, for I reckon ye are lonesome now in
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