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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: stable-boy bemused himself with silence.
CHAPTER V. TREASURE TROVE.
THE Doctor's carriage was a two-wheeled gig with a hood; a kind of
vehicle in much favour among country doctors. On how many roads
has one not seen it, a great way off between the poplars! - in how
many village streets, tied to a gate-post! This sort of chariot is
affected - particularly at the trot - by a kind of pitching
movement to and fro across the axle, which well entitles it to the
style of a Noddy. The hood describes a considerable arc against
the landscape, with a solemnly absurd effect on the contemplative
pedestrian. To ride in such a carriage cannot be numbered among
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