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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: asking. None the less," he says, "your draft's a fine piece of work."
'I'd been looking at it ever since I came in, and 'twas viler even
than I judged it at first. My eye and hand had been purified the
past months, d'ye see, by my iron work.
'"I could do it better now," I said. The more I studied my
squabby Neptunes the less I liked 'em; and Arion was a pure
flaming shame atop of the unbalanced dolphins.
'"I doubt it will be fresh expense to draft it again," he says.
'"Bob never paid me for the first draft. I lay he'll never pay me
for the second. 'Twill cost the King nothing if I re-draw it," I says.
'"There's a woman wishes it to be done quickly," he says.
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