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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: places. I did own the place myself once, but I lost it a while
back, in the bad years just after the World's Fair. Just as well,
too, I say. Lets you out o' payin' taxes. The Ericsons do own
most of the county now. I remember the old preacher's favorite
text used to be, 'To them that hath shall be given.' They've spread
something wonderful--run over this here country like bindweed. But
I ain't one that begretches it to 'em. Folks is entitled to what
they kin git; and they're hustlers. Olaf, he's in the Legislature
now, and a likely man fur Congress. Listen, if that ain't the old
woman comin' now. Want I should stop her?"
Nils shook his head. He heard the deep chug-chug of a motor
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