| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: around the jungle does not do it to attract prey. They are very
quiet when they are stalking their quarry."
"I wish they would roar," said the officer. "I wish they
would do anything, even charge. Just knowing that they are
there and occasionally seeing something like a shadow in the
darkness and the faint sounds that come to us from them are
getting on my nerves. But I hope," he said, "that all three
don't charge at once."
"Three?" said Tarzan. "There are seven of them out there
now."
"Good Lord! exclaimed Smith-Oldwick.
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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 Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: told them to take it all apart and buckle the straps together, end to
end. And after they had done this, they found they had one very long
strap that was stronger than any rope. "It would reach across the
gulf easily," said the Lion, who with the other animals had sat on his
haunches and watched this proceeding. "But I don't see how it could
be fastened to one of those dizzy mountains."
Scraps had no such notion as that in her baggy head. She told them to
fasten one end of the strap to a stout limb of the tree, pointing to
one which extended quite to the edge of the gulf. Button-Bright did
that, climbing the tree and then crawling out upon the limb until he
was nearly over the gulf. There he managed to fasten the strap, which
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