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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: in the boarding of our house. He entered by a round hole,
more neatly pierced than a man could do it with a gimlet, and
he seems to have spent his life in cutting out the interior
of the plank, but whether as a dwelling or a store-house, I
could never find. When I used to lie in bed in the morning
for a rest - we had no easy-chairs in Silverado - I would
hear, hour after hour, the sharp cutting sound of his
labours, and from time to time a dainty shower of sawdust
would fall upon the blankets. There lives no more
industrious creature than a bore.
And now that I have named to the reader all our animals and
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