| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: bird called, speaking as slowly and distinctly as possible, "and
-- then -- you -- can -- drift -- ashore, but -- I -- am -- too -
- tired -- to -- bring -- it -- any -- nearer -- so -- you --
must -- try -- to -- swim -- to -- it."
"What are you quacking about?" Peter answered. "Why don't you
let the nest drift as usual?"
"I -- want -- you -- " the bird said, and repeated it all over.
Then Peter tried slow and distinct.
"What -- are -- you -- quacking -- about?" and so on.
The Never bird became irritated; they have very short tempers.
"You dunderheaded little jay," she screamed, "Why don't you do
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: until he got too old to eat, and then he could use the last
dollar from the tin can in paying back the banker." Schemes like
that are all right for orators and agitators who make their
living with words. But farmers and iron workers know what it is
that turns clods into corn and what makes the iron wheels that
bear it to market. It is muscle applied with the favor of God.
Without labor, no crops. Without rain, no crops. It was
world-wide crop failures that finally brought the lean years of
the nineties. The return of big crops was already reviving the
sick world. It rejected the radicals' "remedy" and next year it
was well. Had we taken that wrong medicine in the dark it would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: fasten up the opening, either by corking pins, or needle and
thread, in such manner as shall be deem'd a sufficient barrier on
the side of Monsieur.
2dly. It is required on the part of Madame, that Monsieur shall
lie the whole night through in his ROBE DE CHAMBRE.
Rejected: inasmuch as Monsieur is not worth a ROBE DE CHAMBRE; he
having nothing in his portmanteau but six shirts and a black silk
pair of breeches.
The mentioning the silk pair of breeches made an entire change of
the article, - for the breeches were accepted as an equivalent for
the ROBE DE CHAMBRE; and so it was stipulated and agreed upon, that
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