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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "Oh, for years. Ever since I was a little fellow. He took me
after my father and mother died of yellow fever in New Orleans.
His wife hates me too, but they have to have me in the show."
"Then I guess you had better quit their company. What's your
name?"
"Frank Hardman. On the show bills I have all sorts of names."
"Well, Frank, how would you like to go to live on a ranch?"
"Where he wouldn't know I was?" whispered the boy eagerly.
"If you like. I know a ranch where you'd be right welcome."
"I would work. I would do anything I could. Really, I would try
to pay my way, and I don't eat much," Frank cried, his eyes as
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