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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: bile drives, us 179 tenants of the Beersheba Flats
prepared to spend the night as best we could in the
raging forest. Them that brought blankets and kin-
dling wood was best off. They got fires started and
wrapped the blankets round their heads and laid
down, cursing, in the grass. There was nothing to
see, nothing to drink, nothing to do. In the dark we
had no way of telling friend or foe except by feeling
the noses of 'em. I brought along me last winter
overcoat, me toothbrush, some quinine pills and the
red quilt off the bed in me flat. Three times during
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