| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: deserted castle? The latch of the door is so far above
our heads that none of us can reach it."
They considered this problem for a while, and then
Woot said to the Tin Man:
"If I stand upon your shoulders, I think I can
unlatch the door."
"Climb up, then," was the reply, and when the boy was
perched upon the tin shoulders of Nick Chopper, he was
just able to reach the latch and raise it.
At once the door swung open, its great hinges making
a groaning sound as if in protest, so Woot leaped down
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: KING HENRY.
Was ever king so griev'd for subjects' woe?
Much is your sorrow, mine ten times so much.
SON.
I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.
[Exit with the body.]
FATHER.
These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;
My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;
My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the man who has got her young, in her desire to rescue it. Now is the
moment to urge on the hounds and ply the javelins. And so having
mastered this one, he will proceed against the rest, and employ the
same method of the chase in dealing with them.
[13] {piesas}, "noosling, nestling, buried."
[14] "The blood runs cold."
[15] Or, "but it will give them a good chase; the dogs will have their
work cut out."
Young fawns may be captured in the way described. Those that are
already big will give more trouble, since they graze with their
mothers and the other deer, and when pursued retire in the middle of
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