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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: scandals, and religious persecutions. The blackest fly I ever saw
is the Reverend -----" but here his voice was fortunately choked by
a fit of coughing.
A couple of wandering Indians--descendants of the Montagnais, on
whose hunting domain we were travelling--dropped in at our camp
that night as we sat around the fire. They gave us the latest news
about the portages on our further journey; how far they had been
blocked with fallen trees, and whether the water was high or low in
the rivers--just as a visitor at home would talk about the effect
of the strikes on the stock market, and the prospects of the newest
organization of the non-voting classes for the overthrow of Tammany
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