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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: thousand dollars--over them mountain roads."
So said Henry, and he ought to have known, for he drives four
horses himself.
Said another Glen Ellen friend: "What? London? He drive four
horses? Can't drive one!"
And the best of it is that he was right. Even after managing to
get a few hundred miles with my four horses, I don't know how to
drive one. Just the other day, swinging down a steep mountain
road and rounding an abrupt turn, I came full tilt on a horse and
buggy being driven by a woman up the hill. We could not pass on
the narrow road, where was only a foot to spare, and my horses did
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