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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: LEARNED AND WORTHY patron falling from his chair, just as he
concluded a long lecture upon temperance, by reciting, from the
"Gentle Shepherd," a couplet, which he RIGHT HAPPILY transferred
from the vice of avarice to that of ebriety:
He that has just eneugh may soundly sleep,
The owercome only fashes folk to keep.
In the course of the evening the Black Dwarf had not been
forgotten, and the old shepherd, Bauldie, told so many stories of
him, that they excited a good deal of interest. It also
appeared, though not till the third punch-bowl was emptied, that
much of the farmer's scepticism on the subject was affected, as
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