| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: where the Marquise was hating and praising him as usual.
'"Much obliged," he said. "But I couldn't gather from Red
Jacket exactly what the President said to Monsieur Genet, or to
his American gentlemen after Monsieur Genet had ridden away.
'I saw Talleyrand was guessing again, for Red Jacket hadn't
told him a word about the white men's pow-wow.'
'Why hadn't he?' Puck asked.
'Because Red Jacket was a chief. He told Talleyrand what the
President had said to him and Cornplanter; but he didn't repeat
the talk, between the white men, that Big Hand ordered him to
leave behind.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: While she queried she watched the girl grinding coffee in the
corner of a flower sack upon the hearthstone. With a steadiness
and skill which predicated nerves as primitive as the method, she
crushed the imprisoned berries with a heavy fragment of quartz.
David Payne noted his visitor's gaze, and the shadow of a smile
drifted over his lips.
"I did have some," he replied. "Missourian chaps, and a couple of
Cornishmen, but they went down to Eldorado to work at wages for a
grubstake."
Mrs. Sayther cast a look of speculative regard upon the girl.
"But of course there are plenty of Indians about?"
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