| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: that received the aeroplanes. Aeroplanes fell out of the sky every
afternoon, each bringing its thousands of pleasure-seekers from
the uttermost parts of the earth to Capri and its delights. All
these things, I say, stretched below.
"But we noticed them only incidentally because of an unusual sight
that evening had to show. Five war aeroplanes that had long slumbered
useless in the distant arsenals of the Rhinemouth were manoeuvring
now in the eastward sky. Evesham had astonished the world by
producing them and others, and sending them to circle here and
there. It was the threat material in the great game of bluff he was
playing, and it had taken even me by surprise. He was one of those
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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 Young Forester by Zane Grey: of their timber by the fire of a few days. But as hour after hour went by,
with our trail leading through miles and miles of the same old forest that
had bewitched me, I began to feel a little less grief at the thought of
what the fire had destroyed. It was a loss, yet only a small part of vast
Penetier. If only my friends had gotten out alive!
Herky was as relentless in his travelling as I had found him in some other
ways. He kept his pony at a trot. The trail was open, we made fast time,
and when the sun had begun to cast a shadow before us we were going
down-hill. Busy with the thought of my friends, I scarcely noted the
passing of time. It was a surprise to me when we rode down the last little
foot-hill, out into the scattered pines, and saw Holston only a few miles
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