The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: ALWAYS hunt strawberries with a dog--and a lantern--"
But she busted in on him there and just piled into him
and snowed him under. She was so mad she couldn't get
the words out fast enough, and she gushed them out
in one everlasting freshet. That was what Tom Sawyer
was after. He allowed to work her up and get her started
and then leave her alone and let her burn herself out.
Then she would be so aggravated with that subject
that she wouldn't say another word about it, nor let
anybody else. Well, it happened just so. When she
was tuckered out and had to hold up, he says, quite ca'm:
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