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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: my head I trusted to a fur cap, with a hood to fold down over my
ears and a band to pass under my nose like a respirator; and in
case of heavy rain I proposed to make myself a little tent, or
tentlet, with my waterproof coat, three stones, and a bent branch.
It will readily be conceived that I could not carry this huge
package on my own, merely human, shoulders. It remained to choose
a beast of burden. Now, a horse is a fine lady among animals,
flighty, timid, delicate in eating, of tender health; he is too
valuable and too restive to be left alone, so that you are chained
to your brute as to a fellow galley-slave; a dangerous road puts
him out of his wits; in short, he's an uncertain and exacting ally,
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