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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: No, no. How did it get to London from hence? For from this
country it came. I suppose the English brought it home in Queen
Bess's or James the First's time.
But if it is wild here, and will grow so well in England, why do
we not find it wild in England too?
For the same reason that there are no toads or snakes in Ireland.
They had not got as far as Ireland before Ireland was parted off
from England. And St. Patrick's cabbage, and a good many other
plants, had not got as far as England.
But why?
Why, I don't know. But this I know: that when Madam How makes a
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