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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: across the sands towards Morris's.
In a few moments the place was invested, with riflemen on every
side except the south, which fronted on the bay. The
steel-jacketed bullets from the high-power guns tore through and
through the flimsy walls. Nevertheless the defenders replied
pluckily, and the siege might have dragged on for hours had it
not been for the courage and resource of Kuroki. Gaining the
stable, Kuroki found an old pushcart there. He piled three bales
of hay upon it, and then set fire to the hay. Pushing the cart
before him, and crouching behind the bales to protect himself
from revolver shots, he worked his way to the east verandah of
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