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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: labor dragged a little, but still they made progress.
They pegged away in silence for some time. Finally
Huck leaned on his shovel, swabbed the beaded drops
from his brow with his sleeve, and said:
"Where you going to dig next, after we get this
one?"
"I reckon maybe we'll tackle the old tree that's
over yonder on Cardiff Hill back of the widow's."
"I reckon that'll be a good one. But won't the
widow take it away from us, Tom? It's on her land."
"SHE take it away! Maybe she'd like to try it once.
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