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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: "Snake bake a hoecake,
And lef' a frog to mind it;
Frog went away, an'
De lizard come and find it."
Any lizard attracted by my hoecake would have to be a salamander
--that fire-proof creature that is supposed to live in flames.
For the cooling down of that molten batter didn't go so far but
that it still would make too hot a mouthful for any creature
alive.
The puddler's hand-rag is one of his most important tools. It
is about the size of a thick wash-rag, and the puddler carries it
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