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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: cornet; but the young of the penny whistler (like that of the
salmon) is occult from observation; he is never heard until
proficient; and providence (perhaps alarmed by the works of Mr
Mallock) defends human hearing from his first attempts upon the
upper octave.
A really noteworthy thing was taking place in a green lane, not
far from Padwick. On the bench of a carrier's cart there sat a
tow-headed, lanky, modest-looking youth; the reins were on his
lap; the whip lay behind him in the interior of the cart; the
horse proceeded without guidance or encouragement; the carrier
(or the carrier's man), rapt into a higher sphere than that of
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