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- # Narrator's Resolve and Initial Action
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This is a text segment extracted from the short story "I and My Chimney" by Herman Melville. The segment, labeled "Narrator's Resolve and Initial Action," spans lines 893-907 of the source text file, `i_and_my_chimney.txt`. It was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the structure-extraction-lambda.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This segment is part of the short story [I and My Chimney](arke:01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW), which is contained within the file [i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC). The text file is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The segment follows [Narrator's Suspicions about Wife and Scribe's Motives](arke:01KG8AJN5MEZT9DMPS2383RDBN) and precedes [Wife's Campaign Involving Mr. Scribe](arke:01KG8AJNXWSVVQNP8HPRK5RQB3) within the short story.
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The segment describes the narrator's determination to protect his chimney. The narrator, in response to unspecified "protests," resolves to defend the chimney. He then describes his actions, including obtaining a quill from a "diabolical-looking old gander" and using it to write a note. The note is dated April 2 and is addressed from "CHIMNEY SIDE."
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- Narrator's Resolve and Initial Action
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- Of one thing only was I resolved, that I and my chimney should not
budge.
In vain all protests. Next morning I went out into the road, where I
had noticed a diabolical-looking old gander, that, for its doughty
exploits in the way of scratching into forbidden inclosures, had been
rewarded by its master with a portentous, four-pronged, wooden
decoration, in the shape of a collar of the Order of the Garotte. This
gander I cornered and rummaging out its stiffest quill, plucked it,
took it home, and making a stiff pen, inscribed the following stiff
note:
CHIMNEY SIDE, April 2.
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- Narrator's Resolve and Initial Action