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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: Indeed, it would be hard to exaggerate the pleasure that we
took in the approach of evening. Our day was not very long,
but it was very tiring. To trip along unsteady planks or
wade among shifting stones, to go to and fro for water, to
clamber down the glen to the Toll House after meat and
letters, to cook, to make fires and beds, were all exhausting
to the body. Life out of doors, besides, under the fierce
eye of day, draws largely on the animal spirits. There are
certain hours in the afternoon when a man, unless he is in
strong health or enjoys a vacant mind, would rather creep
into a cool corner of a house and sit upon the chairs of
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