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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: the baby pines were growing, scarcely tall enough to be a
badge for a MacGregor's bonnet, I came suddenly upon his
innocent body, lying mummified by the dry air and sun: a
pigmy kangaroo. I am ingloriously ignorant of these
subjects; had never heard of such a beast; thought myself
face to face with some incomparable sport of nature; and
began to cherish hopes of immortality in science. Rarely
have I been conscious of a stranger thrill than when I raised
that singular creature from the stones, dry as a board, his
innocent heart long quiet, and all warm with sunshine. His
long hind legs were stiff, his tiny forepaws clutched upon
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