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"Frantically. I get a thing I call sentence-fever that must be like buck-fever it's a sort of intense literary self-consciousness that comes when I try to force myself. But the really awful days aren't when I think I can't write. They're when I wonder whether any writing is worth while at all I mean whether I'm not a sort of glorified buffoon."
Behind them her father and brother jeered at them for their failure, Gray being particularly offensive in ascribing their fiasco to bad riding and buck-fever. A little later Shiela's horse almost unseated her, leaping aside and into the jungle as an enormous black snake coiled close in front.
"Ha! ha! ha!" roared he, as the fellow bounded away unharmed, "it's as clear a case of 'buck-fever' as ever I saw." "Not at all. I aimed too high; that was the only trouble." "Jest so," replied Nat; "a man with the 'fever' always aims too high." "I'll bet I won't miss the next one," said I, angry at the imputation. "I'll bet you will, two to one on it," said Nat.
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