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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: dollars for the animal.'
"'Jeff,' says this pork esthete, 'it ain't money; it's sentiment with
me.'
"'Seven hundred,' says I.
"'Make it eight hundred,' says Rufe, 'and I'll crush the sentiment out
of my heart.'
"I went under my clothes for my money-belt, and counted him out forty
twenty-dollar gold certificates.
"'I'll just take him into my own room,' says I, 'and lock him up till
after breakfast.'
"I took the pig by the hind leg. He turned on a squeal like the steam
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