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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: was as the oxen come every day and stand by the yokes; they do not know
why. Perhaps I would have been with him still; but one day we started with
loads for the Diamond Fields. The oxen were very thin now, and they had
been standing about in the yoke all day without food, while the wagons were
being loaded. Not far from the town was a hill. When we came to the foot
the first wagon stuck fast. I tried for a little while to urge the oxen,
but I soon saw the one span could never pull it up. I went to the other
wagon to loosen that span to join them on in front, but the transport-
rider, who was lying at the back of the wagon, jumped out.
"'They shall bring it up the hill; and if half of them die for it they
shall do it alone,' he said.
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