| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: Don't come back at me and say I didn't warn you, sonnie."
"You make my head ache," snarled the bandy-legged outlaw sourly,
as he passed down with his sack, accumulating tribute as he
passed down the aisle with his sack, accumulating tribute as he
went.
The red-kerchiefed robber whooped when they came to the car
conductor. "Dig up, Mr. Pullman. Go way down into your jeans.
It's a right smart pleasure to divert the plunder of your bloated
corporation back to the people. What! Only fifty-seven dollars.
Oh, dig deeper, Mr. Pullman."
The drummer contributed to the sack eighty-four dollars, a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: this mistake with the present journey. Like a bad daguerreotype,
great part of it has been entirely lost; I can tell you nothing about
the beginning and nothing about the end; but the doings of some fifty
or sixty hours about the middle remain quite distinct and definite,
like a little patch of sunshine on a long, shadowy plain, or the one
spot on an old picture that has been restored by the dexterous hand
of the cleaner. I remember a tale of an old Scots minister called
upon suddenly to preach, who had hastily snatched an old sermon out
of his study and found himself in the pulpit before he noticed that
the rats had been making free with his manuscript and eaten the first
two or three pages away; he gravely explained to the congregation how
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: in short make any progress to speak of in really conquering us? Perhaps
you attributed this to our brave troops and our great Washington. Well,
our troops were brave and Washington was great; but there was more
behind--more than your school teaching ever led you to suspect, if your
schooling was like mine. I imagined England as being just one whole unit
of fury and tyranny directed against us and determined to stamp out the
spark of liberty we had kindled. No such thing! England was violently
divided in sentiment about us. Two parties, almost as opposed as our
North and South have been--only it was not sectional in England--held
very different views about liberty and the rights of Englishmen. The
King's party, George the Third and his upholders, were fighting to saddle
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