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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: revenue officers of every administration for years.
They had watched her house day and night. Not one of
them had ever struck the trail to her storehouse.
The game had excited her imagination. She loved
its daring and danger. That there was the slightest
element of wrong or crime in her association with the
moonshiners of her native heath had never for a moment
entered her mind. It was no crime to make whiskey.
This was the first article of the creed of the true
North Carolina mountaineer. They had from the first
declared that the tax levied by the Federal Government
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