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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: hearers by lines drawn on the ground with the end of his rattan.
On other occasions, he was surrounded by a bevy of school-boys,
whom he sometimes drilled to the manual, and sometimes, with less
approbation on the part of their parents, instructed in the
mystery of artificial fire-works; for in the case of public
rejoicings, the Sergeant was pyrotechnist (as the Encyclopedia
calls it) to the village of Gandercleugh.
It was in his morning walk that I most frequently met with the
veteran. And I can hardly yet look upon the village footpath,
overshadowed by the row of lofty elms, without thinking I see his
upright form advancing towards me with measured step, and his
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