| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: a mixture of Indians and other Indians; but some of 'em was light-
colored, which I was surprised to see. The town was huddled up on the
shore, with woods so thick around it that a subpoena-server couldn't
have reached a monkey ten yards away with the papers. We wondered
what kept it from being annexed to Kansas; but we soon found out that
it was Major Bing.
"Major Bing was the ointment around the fly. He had the cochineal,
sarsaparilla, log-wood, annatto, hemp, and all other dye-woods and
pure food adulteration concessions cornered. He had five-sixths of
the Boca de Thingama jiggers working for him on shares. It was a
beautiful graft. We used to brag about Morgan and E. H. and others
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the top of the thigh the hair should be straight and thick, as also on
the loins and on the lower portion of the stern, but of a moderate
thickness only on the upper parts.
[23] See Stonehenge, p. 25; Darwin, op. cit. ii. 109.
[24] But see Pollux, ib. 65, who apparently read {gennaion touto to
aploun alla therides}; al. Arrian, vi. See Jaques de Fouilloux,
"La Venerie" (ap. E. Talbot, "Oeuvres completes de Xenophon,"
traduction, ii. 318).
There is a good deal to be said for taking your hounds frequently into
the mountains; not so much for taking them on to cultivated land.[25]
And for this reason: the fells offer facilities for hunting and for
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