| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: by, and poured out a strong, swelling, joyous song that well-nigh
split its throat.
When Tom called Jennie, half an hour later, she and Carl were
still talking across the fence.
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CULLY WINS BY A NECK
About this time the labor element in the village and vicinity was
startled by an advertisement in the Rockville "Daily News," signed
by the clerk of the Board of Village Trustees, notifying
contractors that thirty days thereafter, closing at nine P.M.
precisely, separate sealed proposals would be received at the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: xix. 63 ("de Bon. Arist.").
[2] See Berenger, ii. 68.
[3] Lit. "testicles."
There are, indeed, other methods of teaching these arts.[4] Some do so
by touching the horse with a switch under the hocks, others employ an
attendant to run alongside and strike the horse with a stick under the
gaskins. For ourselves, however, far the best method of
instruction,[5] as we keep repeating, is to let the horse feel that
whatever he does in obedience to the rider's wishes will be followed
by some rest and relaxation.
[4] Lit. "People, it must be admitted, claim to teach these arts in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: smiling to me.
I told him not at all; that I had seen much to admire among the
Highlanders; and if he came to that, Mr. Campbell himself was a
Highlander.
"Ay," said he, "that's true. It's a fine blood."
"And what is the King's agent about?" I asked.
"Colin Campbell?" says Henderland. "Putting his head in a bees'
byke!"
"He is to turn the tenants out by force, I hear?" said I.
"Yes," says he, "but the business has gone back and forth, as
folk say. First, James of the Glens rode to Edinburgh, and got
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