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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: Hal and I had used so often back on the Susquehanna. Besides a pen-knife
this case contained salt and pepper, fishing hooks and lines, matches--a
host of little things that a boy who had never been lost might imagine he
would need in an emergency. While thinking and planning I sat on the edge
of the great hole where the spring was. Suddenly I saw a swirl in the
water, and then a splendid spotted fish. It broke water twice. It was two
feet long.
"Dick, there's fish in this hole!" I yelled, eagerly.
"Shouldn't wonder," replied he. "Sure, kid, thet hole's full of trout--
speckled trout," said Herky-Jerky. "But they can't be ketched."
"Why not?" I demanded. I had not caught little trout in the Pennsylvania
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