| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: dead. and some was limping off crippled, and the rest
was setting around on the battlefield, some of them
licking their sore places and the others looking up at
us and seemed to be kind of inviting us to come down
and have some fun, but which we didn't want any.
As for the clothes, they warn't any, any more.
Every last rag of them was inside of the animals; and
not agreeing with them very well, I don't reckon, for
there was considerable many brass buttons on them,
and there was knives in the pockets, too, and smoking
tobacco, and nails and chalk and marbles and fish-
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: West, or, rather, to the scrutiny ordained by the Government; for
Wilding had more than one opportunity of observing how very lax and
indifferent were the constables and tything-men - particularly in
Somerset and Wiltshire - in the performance of this duty. Wayfarers
were questioned as a matter of form, but in no case did Wilding hear of
any one being detained upon suspicion. This was calculated to raise
his drooping hopes, pointing as it did to the general favouring of
Monmouth that was toward. He grew less despondent on the score of the
Duke's possible ultimate success, and he came to hope that the efforts
he went to exert would not be fruitless.
But rude were the disappointments that awaited him in town. London,
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