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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: on the front of this courthouse offering two thousand dollars
reward for a couple of big di'monds--stole at St. Louis.
Them di'monds is worth twelve thousand dollars. But never
mind about that till I get to it. Now about this murder.
I will tell you all about it--how it happened--who done
it--every DEtail."
You could see everybody nestle now, and begin to listen
for all they was worth.
"This man here, Brace Dunlap, that's been sniveling
so about his dead brother that YOU know he never cared
a straw for, wanted to marry that young girl there,
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