| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: brief pauses, as a riverman goes. Finally he stepped ashore just
below the camp, stamped his feet vigorously free of water, and
approached the group around the cooking-fire.
No one saw him save the cook, who vouchsafed him a stately and
lugubrious inclination of the head.
The newcomer was a man somewhere about thirty years of age, squarely
built, big of bone, compact in bulk. His face was burly, jolly, and
reddened rather than tanned by long exposure. A pair of twinkling
blue eyes and a humorously quirked mouth redeemed his countenance
from commonplaceness.
He spread his feet apart and surveyed the scene.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: books to make them laugh; the wise man, when he reads them, will be
far more inclined to weep. Let any young man who may see these
words remember, that in him, as in Rabelais, the ape and the man are
struggling for the mastery. Let him take warning by the fate of one
who was to him as a giant to a pigmy; and think of Tennyson's words
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Arise, and fly
The reeling faun, the sensual feast;
Strive upwards, working out the beast,
And let the ape and tiger die.
But to return. Down among them there at Montpellier, like a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: sight of my revolver, he ejaculated: "Ken Ward!"
"Wal, Ken, if you-all ain't packin' a gun!" said Jim, in his slow, careless
drawl. "Dick, he shore is!"
It was now my turn to blush.
"Yes, I've got a gun," I replied, "and I ought to have had it the other
night."
"How so?" inquired Dick, quickly.
It did not take me long to relate the incident of the Mexican.
Dick looked like a thunder-cloud, but Jim swayed and shook with laughter.
"You knocked him off the roof? Wal, thet shore is dee-lightful. It shore
is!"
The Young Forester |
