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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: warm nor the dark too cool. And so for two months I went through
these pleasant uneventful days, improving the chickens, an object
of mirth, living in the open air, and basking in the perfection
of content.
I was justly styled a tenderfoot. Mrs. Henry had in the beginning
endeavored to shield me from this humiliation; but when she found
that I was inveterate in laying my inexperience of Western
matters bare to all the world, begging to be enlightened upon
rattlesnakes, prairie-dogs, owls, blue and willow grouse,
sage-hens, how to rope a horse or tighten the front cinch of my
saddle, and that my spirit soared into enthusiasm at the mere
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