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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: her up hill and down; along creek-beds and through
the spiky chaparral. Always she dodged craftily,
warily, with forethought. Always the brindled mule,
wrapt in admiration at his companion's cleverness,
crashed along after. Finally we teased her into a
narrow canon. Wes and the Tenderfoot closed the
upper end. I attempted to slip by to the lower, but
was discovered. Dinkey tore a frantic mile down the
side hill. Bullet, his nostrils wide, his ears back, raced
parallel in the boulder-strewn stream-bed, wonderful
in his avoidance of bad footing, precious in his
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