| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: only thing that troubled them being the lack of a more convenient
shipping point than the main island afforded them.
This lack was at last filled by a party of hunters who ventured
across the narrow channel that separated the main island from
Tortuga. Here they found exactly what they needed--a good
harbor, just at the junction of the Windward Channel with the old
Bahama Channel--a spot where four- fifths of the Spanish-Indian
trade would pass by their very wharves.
There were a few Spaniards upon the island, but they were a quiet
folk, and well disposed to make friends with the strangers; but
when more Frenchmen and still more Frenchmen crossed the narrow
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: And another one with them said: ``Impossible! But strange indeed--''
Bessie Bell did not notice what the ladies said, but because they
looked so attentively to where she sat on the stone bench her
attention was turned the way their eyes turned as they talked in low
tones and looked attentively passing by.
So when they had passed by, Bessie Bell turned and looked to the
other end of the bench where the lady sat.
Bessie Bell was so surprised at the first look that she hardly knew
what to think.
The lady did not look like Sister Helen Vincula, oh, not at all; but
the veil that she wore was soft and black like that that Sister
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: things?"
"What horses are up?" asked Raidler shortly.
"Paisano is grazing out behind the little corral, /senor/."
"Saddle him for me at once."
Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano,
well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his
long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni. In two
hours and a quarter Raidler, from a gentle swell, saw the branding
camp by a water hole in the Guadalupe. Sick with expectancy of the
news he feared, he rode up, dismounted, and dropped Paisano's reins.
So gentle was his heart that at that moment he would have pleaded
Heart of the West |
