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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: up this challenge; and it presently led to my acquiring a curious
piece of knowledge. He was boasting of his great snow mountains,
the forests that propped them, the bears that roamed in them, the
izards that loved the ice, and the boars that fed on the oak
mast.
'Well,' I said, quite by chance, 'we have not these things, it is
true. But we have things in the north you have not. We have
tens of thousands of good horses--not such ponies as you breed
here. At the horse fair at Fecamp my sorrel would be lost in the
crowd. Here in the south you will not meet his match in a long
day's journey.'
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