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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: of praise before I carried Johnson alone into the passage: to
whom, thus mollified, I told so much as I judged needful of our
situation, and begged him, if he would not take the job himself,
to find me a smart man.
"Me!" he cried. "I couldn't no more do it than I could try to go
to hell!"
"I thought you were a mate?" said I.
"So I am a mate," giggled Johnson, "and you don't catch me
shipping noways else. But I'll tell you what, I believe I can get
you Arty Nares: you seen Arty; first-rate navigator and a son of
a gun for style." And he proceeded to explain to me that Mr.
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