The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: servant, and a soldier nurse who tried to overpower him. Finally
breaking away, he ran downstairs, reached the door unhurt, and
springing upon his horse rode off. It was feared that neither the
Secretary nor his eldest son would live, but both in time
recovered.
Although Booth had been recognized by dozens of people as he
stood before the footlights brandishing his dagger, his swift
horse soon carried him beyond any hap-hazard pursuit. He crossed
the Navy Yard bridge and rode into Maryland, being joined by one
of his fellow-conspirators. A surgeon named Mudd set Booth's leg
and sent him on his desolate way. For ten days the two men lived
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ful head of Joan de Tany that she wished to ride to
London town and visit the shops of the merchants.
While London itself was solidly for the barons and
against the King's party, the road between the castle
of Richard de Tany and the city of London was beset
with many dangers.
"Why," cried the girl's mother in exasperation, "be-
tween robbers and royalists and the Outlaw of Torn
you would not be safe if you had an army to escort
you."
"But then, as I have no army," retorted the laughing
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