| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: dries up the fluid watery humour with which all Chubs do abound. But
take this rule with you, That a Chub newly taken and newly dressed, is
so much better than a Chub of a day's keeping after he is dead, that L
can compare him to nothing so fitly as to cherries newly gathered from
a tree, and others that have been bruised and lain a day or two in water.
But the Chub being thus used, and dressed presently; and not washed
after he is gutted, for note, that lying long in water, and washing the
blood out of any fish after they be gutted, abates much of their
sweetness; you will find the Chub, being dressed in the blood, and
quickly, to be such meat as will recompense your labour, and disabuse
your opinion.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: there.
"I'll not believe you till you afford me proof," Trenchard replied.
"You shall come and wash your resentment down in the best bottle of
Canary the White Cow can furnish us."
"Not now, I thank you," answered Richard.
"You are thinking of the last occasion on which I drank with you," said
Trenchard reproachfully.
"Not so. But ... but I am not thirsty."
"Not thirsty?" echoed Trenchard. "And is that a reason? Why, lad, it
is the beast that drinks only when he thirsts. And in that lies one of
the main differences between beast and man. Come on" - and his arm
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: berries, for his gardening was as generous as it was enthusi-
astic. At the same time he told me of the burning of the pine
woods about the Byfleet Golf Links.
"They say," said he, "that there's another of those blessed
things fallen there--number two. But one's enough, surely.
This lot'll cost the insurance people a pretty penny before
everything's settled." He laughed with an air of the greatest
good humour as he said this. The woods, he said, were still
burning, and pointed out a haze of smoke to me. "They will
be hot under foot for days, on account of the thick soil of
pine needles and turf," he said, and then grew serious over
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