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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: "She's truck down," he replied; "no telling yet. By the way the
smoke builds, she must be heading right here."
"What can she be?"
"She might be a China mail," returned Wicks, "and she might
be a blooming man-of-war, come to look for castaways. Here!
This ain't the time to stand staring. On deck, boys!"
He was the first on deck, as he had been the first aloft, handed
down the ensign, bent it again to the signal halliards, and ran it
up union down.
"Now hear me," he said, jumping into his trousers, "and
everything I say you grip on to. If that's a man-of-war, she'll be
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