| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: message?"
"I have it word for word; and may your Spirit be with you, Macumazahn,
when you attack the strong mountain of Bangu, which, were I you," Maputa
added reflectively, "I think I should do just at the dawn, since the
Amakoba drink much beer and are heavy sleepers."
Then we took a pinch of snuff together, and he departed at once for
Nodwengu, Panda's Great Place.
Fourteen days had gone by, and Saduko and I, with our ragged band of
Amangwane, sat one morning, after a long night march, in the hilly
country looking across a broad vale, which was sprinkled with trees like
an English park, at that mountain on the side of which Bangu, chief of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: great vaulted room in the very centre of the palace. A curtain
hung at the doorway. The prince lifted it and peeped within, and
this was what he saw:
In the middle of the room was a marble basin of water as clear as
crystal, and around the sides of the basin were these words,
written in letters of gold:
"Whatsoever is False, that I make True."
Beside the fountain upon a marble stand stood a statue of a
beautiful woman made of alabaster, and around the neck of the
statue was a thread of gold. The queen stood beside the statue,
and beat and beat it with her steel-tipped whip. And all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: "What is it you see?" said the Fox.
"It is only my master's Dog that is coming towards us. What,
going so soon?" he continued, as the Fox began to turn away as
soon as he had heard the news. "Will you not stop and
congratulate the Dog on the reign of universal peace?"
"I would gladly do so," said the Fox, "but I fear he may not
have heard of King Lion's decree."
Cunning often outwits itself.
The Wind and the Sun
The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger.
Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun
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