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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: about yet!--But it's daylight, and you have your gun, and I
brought out my bit whinger--I think we may venture on him."
"By all manner of means," said Earnscliff; "but, in the name of
wonder, what can he be doing there?"
"Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi' the grey geese, as they
ca' thae great loose stanes--Odd, that passes a' thing I e'er
heard tell of!"
As they approached nearer, Earnscliff could not help agreeing
with his companion. The figure they had seen the night before
seemed slowly and toilsomely labouring to pile the large stones
one upon another, as if to form a small enclosure. Materials lay
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