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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: charity, and by his more superstitious neighbours from other
motives. The benefits of these last he repaid by advice, when
consulted (as at length he slowly was) on their diseases, or
those of their cattle. He often furnished them with medicines
also, and seemed possessed, not only of such as were the produce
of the country, but of foreign drugs. He gave these persons to
understand, that his name was Elshender the Recluse; but his
popular epithet soon came to be Canny Elshie, or the Wise Wight
of Mucklestane-Moor. Some extended their queries beyond their
bodily complaints, and requested advice upon other matters, which
he delivered with an oracular shrewdness that greatly confirmed
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