| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: himself interesting, and not only interesting but instructive.
No one can read without benefit his occasional chapters and paragraphs,
about life in the gold and silver mines of California and Nevada;
about the Indians of the plains and deserts of the West,
and their cannibalism; about the raising of vegetables in kegs of
gunpowder by the aid of two or three teaspoons of guano; about the
moving of small arms from place to place at night in wheelbarrows
to avoid taxes; and about a sort of cows and mules in the Humboldt
mines, that climb down chimneys and disturb the people at night.
These matters are not only new, but are well worth knowing.
It is a pity the author did not put in more of the same kind.
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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 Betty Zane by Zane Grey: came the thought that her brother and his wife had suspected her secret and
had been talking about her, perhaps pitying her With this thought came the
fear that if she had betrayed herself to the Colonel's wife she might have
done so to others. The consciousness that this might well be true and that
even now the girls might be talking and laughing at her caused her exceeding
shame and bitterness.
Many weeks had passed since that last night that Betty and Alfred Clarke had
been together.
In due time Col. Zane's men returned and Betty learned from Jonathan that
Alfred had left them at Ft. Pitt, saying he was going south to his old home.
At first she had expected some word from Alfred, a letter, or if not that,
Betty Zane |
