| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: We got that fixed easy enough, and for the next month rammed
around through this broken country lookin' for evidence. I saw
enough to satisfy me to a moral certainty, but nothin' for a
sheriff; and, of course, we couldn't go shoot up a peaceful
rancher on mere suspicion. Finally, one day, we run on a
four-months' calf all by himself, with the T 0 iron onto him--a
mighty healthy lookin' calf, too.
"Wonder where HIS mother is!" says I.
"Maybe it's a 'dogie,'" says Larry Eagen--we calls calves whose
mothers have died "dogies."
"No," says I, "I don't hardly think so. A dogie is always under
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: flowing through it; and on the river a Mill.
So white it stood among the trees, and so merrily whirred
the wheel as the water turned it, and so bright blossomed the
flowers in the garden, that Martimor had joy of the sight, for
it minded him of his own country. "But here is no adventure,"
thought he, and made to ride by.
Even then came a young maid suddenly through the garden
crying and wringing her hands. And when she saw him she cried
him help. At this Martimor alighted quickly and ran into the
garden, where the young maid soon led him to the millpond,
which was great and deep, and made him understand that her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: wandered on the quay at Sir Richard's side; for Mrs. Leigh was too
wise a woman to alter one tittle of the training which her husband
had thought best for his younger boy. It was enough that her elder
son had of his own accord taken to that form of life in which she
in her secret heart would fain have moulded both her children. For
Frank, God's wedding gift to that pure love of hers, had won
himself honor at home and abroad; first at the school at Bideford;
then at Exeter College, where he had become a friend of Sir Philip
Sidney's, and many another young man of rank and promise; and next,
in the summer of 1572, on his way to the University of Heidelberg,
he had gone to Paris, with (luckily for him) letters of
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