| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: though.''
``Guelph!'' exclaimed some of the players
suspiciously. ``Where's Guelph?''
``It's in Canada. We'll take the night express
an' get there tomorrow in time for the game.
An' we'll hev to hustle.''
Upon Merritt then rained a multiplicity of
excuses. Gillinger was not well, and ought to have
that day's rest. Snead's eyes would profit by a
lay-off. Deerfoot Browning was leading the
league in base running, and as his legs were all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: to be an almighty big pile."
"How much might you call a pile?" Bettles demanded from beneath,
his arms clutched lovingly around Daylight's legs.
"Yes, how much? What do you call a pile?" others cried.
Daylight steadied himself for a moment and debated. "Four or
five millions," he said slowly, and held up his hand for silence
as his statement was received with derisive yells. "I'll be real
conservative, and put the bottom notch at a million. And for not
an ounce less'n that will I go out of the country."
Again his statement was received with an outburst of derision.
Not only had the total gold output of the Yukon up to date been
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: the sun and the moon peering in vain between the palm-trees for the
bygone work, the wind blowing over an empty site. Yet the place,
which is now only an episode in some memories, seemed to have been
built, and to be destined to endure, for years. It was a busy
hamlet. One of the maniap's we made our dining-room, one the
kitchen. The houses we reserved for sleeping. They were on the
admirable Apemama plan: out and away the best house in the South
Seas; standing some three feet above the ground on posts; the sides
of woven flaps, which can be raised to admit light and air, or
lowered to shut out the wind and the rain: airy, healthy, clean,
and watertight. We had a hen of a remarkable kind: almost unique
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