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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: called 'the law of supply and demand.'"
I explained to him as well as I could that the reference was to a
politico-economical law, and not to a legal statute.
"I didn't know," said Finch. "I heard a good deal about it a year or
so ago, but in a one-sided way."
"Yes," said I, "political orators use it a great deal. In fact, they
never give it a rest. I suppose you heard some of those cart-tail
fellows spouting on the subject over here on the east side."
"I heard it from a king," said Finch--"the white king of a tribe of
Indians in South America."
I was interested but not surprised. The big city is like a mother's
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