| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: and say a word to his comrade. Bannister looked up, caught sight
of her, and smiled. That smile, so pale and wan, went to her
heart like a knife. But the message of her eyes was hope. They
told the prisoners silently to be of good cheer, that at least
they were not deserted to their fate.
"What is it about--the crowd?" Nora asked of her mistress as the
latter was returning to the head of the stairs.
In as few words as she could Helen told her, repressing sharply
the tears the girl began to shed. "This is not the time to
weep--not yet. We must save them. You can do your part. Mr.
Bannister is wounded. Get a doctor over the telephone and see
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: By-and-by this hill suddenly dropped down into a pretty valley,
where the travelers saw, to their surprise, a small house standing
by the road-side.
It was the first house they had seen, and they hastened into the
valley to discover who lived there. No one was in sight as they
approached, but when they began to get nearer the house they heard
queer sounds coming from it. They could not make these out at first,
but as they became louder our friends thought they heard a sort of
music like that made by a wheezy hand-organ; the music fell upon
their ears in this way:
Tiddle-widdle-iddle oom pom-pom!
The Road to Oz |
