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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: b'ilin'. You can have all the wood you want to
pick up, but I don't want any cut. You mind that
or there'll be trouble."
"I won't cut a stick."
"Mind ye don't. Folks call me an easy mark,
and I guess myself I am easy up to a certain point,
and cuttin' my wood is one of them points. Roof
didn't leak in that shower last night, did it?"
"Not a bit."
"Didn't s'pose it would. The other feller was
handy, and he kept tinkerin' all the time. Well,
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