| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: hasty intrusion on their conference. They were probably aware of
his approach, for he had not halted for a moment before the Dwarf
returned to his cottage; and the taller figure who had
accompanied him, glided round the enclosure of the garden, and
seemed to disappear from the eyes of the admiring Hobbie.
"Saw ever mortal the like o' that!" said Elliot; "but my case is
desperate, sae, if he were Beelzebub himsell, I'se venture down
the brae on him."
Yet, notwithstanding his assumed courage, he slackened his pace,
when, nearly upon the very spot where he had last seen the tall
figure, he discerned, as if lurking among the long heather, a
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: It is God's law and we can not alter it. If I were asked to write
the BIBLE OF LABOR, this chapter would be the law and the
prophets. And from these truths I would advise each man to write
his own Ten Commandments.
CHAPTER XXX
BREAKING INTO THE TIN INDUSTRY
I decided to leave Birmingham as soon as my stomach had got
used to regular meals and my pocket knew what real money felt
like again.
The dry years had ended and once more the northern farms were
yielding mammoth crops. But the country was so sick that it
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