| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: wrought metal,[9] and shafts of cornel-wood a spear-shaft's thickness.
[9] Wrought of copper (or bronze).
The foot-traps should resemble those used for deer.
These hunts should be conducted not singly,[10] but in parties, since
the wild boar can be captured only by the collective energy of several
men, and that not easily.
[10] Lit. "There should be a band of huntsmen"; or, "It will take the
united energies of several to capture this game." See Hom. "Il."
ix. 543, of the Calydonian boar:
{ton d' uios Oineos apekteinen Meleagros,
polleon ek polion theretoras andras ageiras
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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 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture
and the wood hauled home in winter. Anne had named it Lover's
Lane before she had been a month at Green Gables.
"Not that lovers ever really walk there," she explained to Marilla,
"but Diana and I are reading a perfectly magnificent book and there's
a Lover's Lane in it. So we want to have one, too. And it's a very
pretty name, don't you think? So romantic! We can't imagine the
lovers into it, you know. I like that lane because you can think
out loud there without people calling you crazy."
Anne, starting out alone in the morning, went down Lover's Lane
as far as the brook. Here Diana met her, and the two little
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