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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: the canyon, so close our house was planted under the
overhanging rock.
THE HUNTER'S FAMILY
THERE is quite a large race or class of people in America,
for whom we scarcely seem to have a parallel in England. Of
pure white blood, they are unknown or unrecognizable in
towns; inhabit the fringe of settlements and the deep, quiet
places of the country; rebellious to all labour, and pettily
thievish, like the English gipsies; rustically ignorant, but
with a touch of wood-lore and the dexterity of the savage.
Whence they came is a moot point. At the time of the war,
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