| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: walk. Two ragged youngsters, alike even to freckles and squints,
were playing in the yard.
"Is your mother around?" I asked.
"In the front room. Walk in," they answered in identical tones.
As we got to the porch we heard voices, and stopped. I knocked,
but the people within, engaged in animated, rather one-sided
conversation, did not answer.
"'In the front room. Walk in,'" quoted McKnight, and did so.
In the stuffy farm parlor two people were sitting. One, a
pleasant-faced woman with a checked apron, rose, somewhat embarrassed,
to meet us. She did not know me, and I was thankful. But our
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: For breeding purposes choose winter, and release the bitches from hard
work;[1] which will enable them to profit by repose and to produce a
fine progeny towards spring, since that season is the best to promote
the growth of the young dogs. The bitch is in heat for fourteen
days,[2] and the moment at which to put her to the male, with a view
to rapid and successful impregnation, is when the heat is passing off.
Choose a good dog for the purpose. When the bitch is ready to whelp
she should not be taken out hunting continuously, but at intervals
sufficient to avoid a miscarriage through her over-love of toil. The
period of gestation lasts for sixty days. When littered the puppies
should be left to ther own dam, and not placed under another bitch;
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