The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Babo said nothing, but he rubbed the places where the smith had
dusted his coat.
The fourth day of their journey they came to a town, and here
Simon Agricola was for trying his tricks of magic again. He and
Babo took up their stand in the corner of the market-place, and
began bawling, "Doctor Knowall! Doctor Knowall! Who has come from
the other end of Nowhere! He can cure any sickness or pain! He
can bring you back from the gates of death! Here is Doctor
Knowall! Here is Doctor Knowall!"
Now there was a very, very rich man in that town, whose daughter
lay sick to death; and when the news of this great doctor was
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