| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: bent pins, which always failed to hold the biggest fish; or perhaps
with borrowed tackle, dangling a fat worm in vain before the noses
of the staring, supercilious sunfish that poised themselves in the
clear water around the Lake house dock at Lake George; or, at best,
on picnic parties across the lake, marred by the humiliating
presence of nurses, and disturbed by the obstinate refusal of old
Horace, the boatman, to believe that the boy could bait his own
hook, but sometimes crowned with the delight of bringing home a
whole basketful of yellow perch and goggle-eyes. Of nobler sport
with game fish, like the vaulting salmon and the merry, pugnacious
trout, as yet the boy had only dreamed. But he had heard that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: He loved his work and he loved the brisk night ride on his sledge and
the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells. On that first trip with the ten
reindeer only Glossie and Flossie wore bells; but each year thereafter
for eight years Claus carried presents to the children of the Gnome
King, and that good-natured monarch gave him in return a string of
bells at each visit, so that finally every one of the ten deer was
supplied, and you may imagine what a merry tune the bells played as
the sledge sped over the snow.
The children's stockings were so long that it required a great many
toys to fill them, and soon Claus found there were other things
besides toys that children love. So he sent some of the Fairies, who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather:
Emil shrugged his shoulders. "What non-
sense!" he murmured. "Just like them."
Alexandra drew back. "Why nonsense, Emil?"
"Why, you've never thought of such a thing,
have you? They always have to have something to
fuss about."
"Emil," said his sister slowly, "you ought
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