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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the artificers, nothing can equal the happy manner in which
these excellent workmen spent their time. They always went
from Arbroath to their arduous task cheering and they
generally returned in the same hearty state. While at the
rock, between the tides, they amused themselves in reading,
fishing, music, playing cards, draughts, etc., or in sporting
with one another. In the workyard at Arbroath the young men
were almost, without exception, employed in the evening at
school, in writing and arithmetic, and not a few were learning
architectural drawing, for which they had every convenience
and facility, and were, in a very obliging manner, assisted in
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