| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: ings. They struck into a road where they met travellers
and pack-mules. Cattle were grazing on the slopes.
They passed a little village where the round-eyed niņos
shrieked and called at sight of them.
Mlle. Giraud laid aside her leopard-skin robe. It
seemed to be a trifle incongruous now. In the moun-
tains it had appeared fitting and natural. And if Arm-
strong was not mistaken she laid aside with it something
of the high dignity of her demeanour. As the country
became more populous and significant of comfortable
life he saw, with a feeling of joy, that the exalted princess
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: He's been on the square, given us warning, and all that, and--why,
damn it, man, I can't break my word!"
"He'll keep his, never fear."
"Don't doubt it, but I won't let a half-breed outdo me in fair
dealing. Why not do what he wants,--give him the missionary and
be done with it?"
"N-no," Bill hesitated doubtfully.
"Shoe pinches, eh?"
Bill flushed a little and dropped the discussion. Baptiste the
Red was still waiting the final decision. Stockard went up to
him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: no surprise, no novelty left, and no cash in the bank. Shorty owed him
fifty dollars. Shorty would be able to pay that after the round-up, and
he, Lin, would get his time and rustle altogether some five hundred
dollars. Then there was his homestead claim on Box Elder, and the
surveyors were coming in this fall. No better location for a home in this
country than Box Elder. Wood, water, fine land. All it needed was a house
and ditches and buildings and fences, and to be planted with crops. Such
chances and considerations should sober a man and make him careful what
he did. "I'd take in Cheyenne on our wedding-trip, and after that I'd
settle right down to improving Box Elder," concluded Mr. McLean,
suddenly.
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