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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: there is even a turtle pond with a few plum bushes around it they
seem irresistibly drawn toward it.
As to the shanty itself, Canute had built it without aid of
any kind, for when he first squatted along the banks of
Rattlesnake Creek there was not a human being within twenty
miles. It was built of logs split in halves, the chinks stopped
with mud and plaster. The roof was covered with earth and was
supported by one gigantic beam curved in the shape of a round
arch. It was almost impossible that any tree had ever grown in
that shape. The Norwegians used to say that Canute had taken the
log across his knee and bent it into the shape he wished. There
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