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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: fox-grapes and cat-briers trailed and twisted themselves anger.
What a pretty battle it is, and in a good cause, too! Waste no pity
on that big black ruffian. He is a villain and a thief, an egg-
stealer, an ogre, a devourer of unfledged innocents. The kingbirds
are not afraid of him, knowing that he is a coward at heart. They
fly upon him, now from below, now from above. They buffet him from
one side and from the other. They circle round him like a pair of
swift gunboats round an antiquated man-of-war. They even perch upon
his back and dash their beaks into his neck and pluck feathers from
his piratical plumage. At last his lumbering flight has carried him
far enough away, and the brave little defenders fly back to the
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