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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: grasses and rough stones. They drew the wagon up close to its foot for the
night. It was a sheltered, warm spot.
When the dark night had come, when the tired oxen were tied to the wheels,
and the driver and leader had rolled themselves in their blankets before
the fire, and gone to sleep, then Gregory fastened down the sails of the
wagon securely. He fixed a long candle near the head of the bed, and lay
down himself on the floor of the wagon near the back. He leaned his head
against the kartel, and listened to the chewing of the tired oxen, and to
the crackling of the fire, till, overpowered by weariness, he fell into a
heavy sleep. Then all was very still in the wagon. The dog slept on his
mistress' feet, and only two mosquitoes, creeping in through a gap in the
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