| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: matters embarrassin'. Carter's hosses got away. Then me an' the
Greasers had a little game of hide an' seek in the cactus. I was on
the wrong side, an' had to break through their line to head toward
home. We run some. But I had a closer call than I'm stuck on
havin'."
"Laddy, you wouldn't have any such close calls if you'd ride one
of my horses," expostulated Belding. "This broncho of yours
can run, and Lord knows he's game. But you want a big,
strong horse, Mexican bred, with cactus in his blood.
Take one of the bunch--Bull, White Woman, Blanco Jose."
"I had a big, fast horse a while back, but I lost him," said Ladd.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: And he took him out.
"It has actually eyes!" he cried. "Why, it must be a Cephalopod!
This is most extraordinary!"
"No, I ain't!" cried Tom, as loud as he could; for he did not like
to be called bad names.
"It is a water-baby!" cried Ellie; and of course it was.
"Water-fiddlesticks, my dear!" said the professor; and he turned
away sharply.
There was no denying it. It was a water-baby: and he had said a
moment ago that there were none. What was he to do?
He would have liked, of course, to have taken Tom home in a bucket.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: to a spinster cousin to chaperon them on the trip across the
Atlantic Ocean. Nor had he reached New York in time to see them
disembark, and thus had missed meeting Mrs. Brewster, then in
her first year of widowhood.
The friendship between the twins and Mrs. Brewster had been kept
up through much correspondence, and the widow had finally promised,
to come to Washington for their debut, visiting her cousins, Dr.
and Mrs. Stone. The meeting had but cemented the friendship between
them, and at the twins' urgent request, seconded with warmth by
Colonel McIntyre, she had promised to spend the month of April at
the McIntyre home.
The Red Seal |
