| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: coincidence that two horses in two days should have spells under you."
"That's the only explanation," he answered, starting off with her. "But why am
I wanted urgently?"
"Planchette."
"Oh, I remember. It will be a new experience to me. Somehow I missed it when
it was all the rage long ago."
"So did all of us," Lute replied, "except Mrs. Grantly. It is her favorite
phantom, it seems."
"A weird little thing," he remarked. "Bundle of nerves and black eyes. I'll
wager she doesn't weigh ninety pounds, and most of that's magnetism."
"Positively uncanny . . . at times." Lute shivered involuntarily. "She gives
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: laughing, and ran with mile-long strides to their assistance,
flourishing his club aloft and shouting at the cranes, who
quacked and croaked, and retreated as fast as they could. Then
the Pygmy army would march homeward in triumph, attributing the
victory entirely to their own valor, and to the warlike skill
and strategy of whomsoever happened to be captain general; and
for a tedious while afterwards, nothing would be heard of but
grand processions, and public banquets, a nd brilliant
illuminations, and shows of wax-work, with likenesses of the
distinguished officers, as small as life.
In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: deer, and the others, the Eaters of Grass," said Baloo.
"Then THOU knowest the tale. Heh? Why have I never heard?"
"Because the Jungle is full of such tales. If I made a
beginning there would never be an end to them. Let go my ear,
Little Brother."
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle
Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in
a sort of sing-song) a few of the laws that apply to the wolves.
There are, of course, hundreds and hundreds more, but these will
do for specimens of the simpler rulings.
The Second Jungle Book |
