| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: "Isabeau s'y promene
Le long de son jardin,"
chanted in the farmhouse or the lumber shanty, to the tunes which
have come down from an unknown source, and never lost their echo in
the hearts of the people.
Our Ferdinand was a perfect fountain of music. He had a clear
tenor voice, and solaced every task and shortened every voyage with
melody. "A song, Ferdinand, a jolly song," the other men would
say, as the canoes went sweeping down the quiet lake. And then the
leader would strike up a well-known air, and his companions would
come in on the refrain, keeping time with the stroke of their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: then he said that the man and woman who had been so kind to him
were trapped.
"Does Man trap Man?" said Bagheera.
"So he says. I cannot understand the talk. They are all mad
together. What have Messua and her man to do with me that they
should be put in a trap; and what is all this talk about the
Red Flower? I must look to this. Whatever they would do to
Messua they will not do till Buldeo returns. And so----" Mowgli
thought hard, with his fingers playing round the haft of the
skinning-knife, while Buldeo and the charcoal-burners went off
very valiantly in single file.
The Second Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: affectation of mystery while he approaches the fearful and
wonderful part. It was with such advantages that the present
writer heard the following events related, more than twenty years
since, by the celebrated Miss Seward of Litchfield, who, to her
numerous accomplishments, added, in a remarkable degree, the
power of narrative in private conversation. In its present form
the tale must necessarily lose all the interest which was
attached to it by the flexible voice and intelligent features of
the gifted narrator. Yet still, read aloud to an undoubting
audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in
silence by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-
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