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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: she was made fast astern of the floating light, and the crew
remained on board till next day, when the weather moderated.
There can be very little doubt that the appearance of James
Spink with his boat on this critical occasion was the means of
preventing the loss of lives at the rock this morning. When
these circumstances, some years afterwards, came to the
knowledge of the Board, a small pension was ordered to our
faithful pilot, then in his seventieth year; and he still
continues to wear the uniform clothes and badge of the
Lighthouse service. Spink is a remarkably strong man, whose
TOUT ENSEMBLE is highly characteristic of a North-country
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