| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: thought Knoll, and concluded he had better go to sleep. He could
not remember just how long he may have dozed but it seemed to him
that during that time he had heard a shot. It did not interest him
much. He supposed some one was shooting at a thieving cat or at
some small night animal. He did not even remember whether he had
been really sound asleep, before he was aroused by the breaking
down of the bench on which he lay. The noise of it more than the
shock of the short fall, awoke him and he sprang tip in alarm and
listened intently to hear whether any one had been attracted by it.
His first glance was towards the building behind the garden. There
was no sound nor no light in the garden house but there was a light
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: of a wind hangs out, I don't know when we'll make her. The shallows
at Bull's was always bad enough, but this is worse."
"Yes, I expected to pick you up 'way below," admitted Jim, whose
"turkey," or clothes-bag, at his side proclaimed him a newcomer.
"Had quite a tramp to find you."
"This stretch of slack water was always a terror," went on North,
"and we had fairly to pike-pole every stick through when the wind
blew; but now that dam's backed the water up until there reely ain't
no current at all. And this breeze has just stopped the drive dead
as a smelt."
"Don't opening the sluice-gates give her a draw?" inquired the
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