| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: will have the eldest.'--And they were married that very day, and the
soldier was chosen to be the king's heir.
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close
by the seaside. The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing;
and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the
sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was
dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a
great fish. But the fish said, 'Pray let me live! I am not a real
fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me
go!' 'Oh, ho!' said the man, 'you need not make so many words about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: the baron an explanation of his intervention at the nuptials.
Brother Michael and the little fat friar proposed to be his guides.
The proposal was courteously accepted, and they set out together,
leaving Sir Ralph's followers at the abbey. The knight was mounted
on a spirited charger; brother Michael on a large heavy-trotting horse;
and the little fat friar on a plump soft-paced galloway,
so correspondent with himself in size, rotundity, and sleekness,
that if they had been amalgamated into a centaur, there would
have been nothing to alter in their proportions.
"Do you know," said the little friar, as they wound along the banks
of the stream, "the reason why lake-trout is better than river-trout,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Francis?"
"Nay," said Gascoyne; "said I not it hath been fast locked since
Earl Robert's day?"
"By'r Lady," said Myles, "an I had lived here in this place so
long as thou, I wot I would have been within it ere this."
"Beshrew me," said Gascoyne, "but I have never thought of such a
matter." He turned and looked at the tall crown rising into the
warm sunlight with a new interest, for the thought of entering it
smacked pleasantly of adventure. "How wouldst thou set about
getting within?" said he, presently.
"Why, look," said Myles; "seest thou not yon hole in the ivy
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