| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: If your mother leaves you for a minute all
alone.
Little Master Mischievous, opening every door,
Spilling books and papers round about the parlor
floor,
Scratching all the tables and marring all the
chairs,
Climbing where you shouldn't climb and tum-
bling down the stairs.
How'd you get the ink well? We can never
guess.
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: like the stars; and sternly he looked at them under his
brows, and sternly he spoke and loud -
'Who are you, and what want you here, that you come to the
shore of Cutaia? Do you take no account of my rule, nor of
my people the Colchians who serve me, who never tired yet in
the battle, and know well how to face an invader?'
And the heroes sat silent awhile before the face of that
ancient king. But Hera the awful goddess put courage into
Jason's heart, and he rose and shouted loudly in answer, 'We
are no pirates nor lawless men. We come not to plunder and
to ravage, or carry away slaves from your land; but my uncle,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: boats for their jackets and stockings, when, to their
astonishment, instead of three, they found only two boats, the
third being adrift with the SMEATON. Not a word was uttered
by any one, but all appeared to be silently calculating their
numbers, and looking to each other with evident marks of
perplexity depicted in their countenances. The landing-
master, conceiving that blame might be attached to him for
allowing the boat to leave the rock, still kept at a distance.
At this critical moment the author was standing upon an
elevated part of Smith's Ledge, where he endeavoured to mark
the progress of the SMEATON, not a little surprised that her
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