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Hey, it's your old buddy, the passage about John Muir.

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Press pause if you'd like to get to know him all over again.

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The phrase "fancied himself the definitive authority on the subject" serves to...what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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To answer this question, we'll take a peek

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back at lines 35 through 36.

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Hm, looks like Hutchings wasn't too happy about Muir's "newfound prominence

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as a Yosemite spokesman."

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We'd better call the guys from Monster Hunters, because it looks like Yosemite is being terrorized

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by that green-eyed monster known as...jealousy!

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Duhn, duhn, duhn!

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Hutchings might have been concerned about

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Yosemite, but people consumed with jealousy aren't exactly selfless.

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The green-eyed monster... is a little self-involved.

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Hutchings was all about Yosemite. It's this very thing that made him so jealous of Muir

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in the first place.

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Sawmill? Who's talking about a sawmill?

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We're looking for an answer that points to these two bickering over Yosemite.

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(D) is a definite no. (E) is on the right track, but it doesn't

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work because there aren't really any other accounts mentioned.

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These two had one big dispute that we know about, and it starts with a capital Y.

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This leaves only choice (A), which explains why Hutchings

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was so monstrously jealous of Muir.

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Boys, boys... there's enough Yosemite to go around for everyone...

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