| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: deep, croaking voice, "If the dishpan is stolen, somebody must have
taken it."
"But who?"asked Cayke anxiously. "Who is the thief?"
"The one who took the dishpan, of course," replied the Frogman, and
hearing this all the Yips nodded their heads gravely and said to one
another, "It is absolutely true!"
"But I want my dishpan!" cried Cayke.
"No one can blame you for that wish," remarked the Frogman.
"Then tell me where I may find it," she urged.
The look the Frogman gave her was a very wise look, and he rose from
his chair and strutted up and down the room with his hands under his
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: probably be accounted for by the fact of the hens laying a large number of
eggs; but, as in the case of the cuckoo, at intervals of two or three days.
This instinct, however, of the American ostrich has not as yet been
perfected; for a surprising number of eggs lie strewed over the plains, so
that in one day's hunting I picked up no less than twenty lost and wasted
eggs.
Many bees are parasitic, and always lay their eggs in the nests of bees of
other kinds. This case is more remarkable than that of the cuckoo; for
these bees have not only their instincts but their structure modified in
accordance with their parasitic habits; for they do not possess the
pollen-collecting apparatus which would be necessary if they had to store
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: brackets. For the festivals in question, see "Dict. of Antiq."
"Lampadephoria"; C. R. Kenney, "Demosth. against Leptines," etc.,
App. vi.
[8] For the institution called the {dokimasia}, see Aristot.
"Constitution of Athens," ch. lv.
[9] See Dem. "against Midias," 565, 17; "against Apholus" (1), 814,
20.
[10] See Lys. "Or." xiv. and xv.
[11] See Grote, "H. G." vi. p. 48; Thuc. vii. 78; i. 96; Arist.
"Wasps," 707; Aristot. "Pol." v. 8.
I put it to you, then: can any one suppose that all, or any, of these
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