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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: without desiring to stand on the top of it. If one can reach the
summit, one becomes a sharer in the dominion. The difficulties in
the way only add to the zest of the victory. Every mountain is,
rightly considered, an invitation to climb. And as I was resting
for a month one summer at Bartlett's, Ampersand challenged me
daily.
Did you know Bartlett's in its palmy time? It was the homeliest,
quaintest, coziest place in the Adirondacks. Away back in the
ante-bellum days Virgil Bartlett had come into the woods, and built
his house on the bank of the Saranac River, between the Upper
Saranac and Round Lake. It was then the only dwelling within a
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