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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: mocked politely his confidence. "By this time I should think they
might be hunting big game in deepest Africa."
"They might be, but they're not."
"What about that investment in futurities you made on the train?
The month is more than half up. Do you see any chance of
realizing?"
"It looks now as if I might be a false prophet, but I feel way
down deep that I won't. In this prophet's business confidence is
half the stock in trade."
"Really. I'm very curious to know what it is you predicted. Was
it something good?"
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