| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: another cartridge in the barrel.
The moment she saw me she dropped her head and charged. She was
thoroughly angry and came very fast. I had just enough time to
steady the gold bead on her chest and to pull trigger.
At the shot, to my great relief, she turned bottom up, and I saw
her tail for an instant above the grass-an almost sure
indication of a bad hit. She thrashed around, and made a
tremendous hullabaloo of snarls and growls. I backed out slowly,
my rifle ready. It was no place for me, for the grass was over
knee high.
Once at a safe distance I blazed a tree with my hunting knife and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the swallows about the water, and often dipping almost into it.
They know that fishes live under water, and that many insects--
like May-flies and caddis-flies and water-beetles--live sometimes
in the water, sometimes in the open air; and they cannot know--you
do not know--what it is which prevents a bird's living under
water. So their guess is really a very fair one; no more silly
than that of the savages, who when they first saw the white men's
ships, with their huge sails, fancied they were enormous sea-
birds; and when they heard the cannons fire, said that the ships
spoke in thunder and lightning. Their guess was wrong, but not
silly; for it was the best guess they could make.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: town before, when they had come out into the streets. The young
men with the basins scattered the gold money to the people, and a
great crowd ran scrambling after, and shouted and cheered.
So Jacob Stuck rode up to the king's palace, and the king himself
came out to meet him with the princess hanging on his arm.
As for the princess, she knew him the moment she laid eyes on
him. She came down the steps, and set the lock of hair against
his head, where she had trimmed it off the night before, and it
fitted and matched exactly. "This is the young man," said she,
"and I will marry him, and none other."
But the prime-minister whispered and whispered in the king's ear:
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