| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: lingering hand over his mane. As the sounds of the morning came
increasingly from tree and plain, Shorty glanced back to see that
no one was yet out of the cabin, and then put his arms round the
horse's neck, laying his head against him. For a moment the
cowboy's insignificant face was exalted by the emotion he would
never have let others see. He hugged tight this animal, who was
dearer to his heart than anybody in the world.
"Good-by, Pedro," he said--"good-by." Pedro looked for bread.
"No," said his master, sorrowfully, "not any more. Yu' know well
I'd give it yu' if I had it. You and me didn't figure on this,
did we, Pedro? Good-by!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: Prester John, that be under earth as to us that be on this half,
and of other isles that be more further beyond, whoso will, pursue
them for to come again right to the parts that he came from, and so
environ all earth. But what for the isles, what for the sea, and
what for strong rowing, few folk assay for to pass that passage;
albeit that men might do it well, that might be of power to dress
them thereto, as I have said you before. And therefore men return
from those isles abovesaid by other isles, coasting from the land
of Prester John.
And then come men in returning to an isle that is clept Casson.
And that isle hath well sixty journeys in length, and more than
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: across them,--remember the length of California
trees, and do not despise the rivers,--you would
better unpack, carry your goods across yourself, and
swim the pack-horses. If the current is very bad, you
can splice riatas, hitch one end to the horse and the
other to a tree on the farther side, and start the
combination. The animal is bound to swing across
somehow. Generally you can drive them over loose. In
swimming a horse from the saddle, start him well
upstream to allow for the current, and never, never,
never attempt to guide him by the bit. The Tenderfoot
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