| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: ears and distended snorting nostrils, appearing just above
the water like a great shoal of some amphibious animal.
Mare's flesh is the only food which the soldiers have when
on an expedition. This gives them a great facility of movement;
for the distance to which horses can be driven over
these plains is quite surprising: I have been assured that an
unloaded horse can travel a hundred miles a day for many
days successively.
The encampment of General Rosas was close to the river.
It consisted of a square formed by waggons, artillery, straw
huts, etc. The soldiers were nearly all cavalry; and I should
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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: a dull one; but that's no reason for to hack the edge off over a
capstan bar."
"All right, if you say so, but when it comes to woman, I guess
I'll take mine with a little less edge."
"What do you know about it?" Dick demanded.
"Some." Tommy reached over for a pair of Molly's wet stockings
and stretched them across his knees to dry.
Dick, eying him querulously, went fishing in her hand satchel,
then hitched up to the front of the stove with divers articles of
damp clothing spread likewise to the heat.
"Thought you said you never were married?" he asked.
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