| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: me walking out with any on Sunday afternoons. He said he had lots of
sweethearts, and he was going to see one the next Wednesday on a farm, and
he asked me to lend my mare. I told him she was very old. But he said it
didn't matter; he would come the next day to fetch her.
"After he was gone my little room got back to its old look. I loved it so;
I was so glad to get into it at night, and it seemed to be reproaching me
for bringing him there. The next day he took the grey mare. On Thursday
he did not bring her back, and on Friday I found the saddle and bridle
standing at my door.
"In the afternoon he looked into the shop, and called out: 'Hope you got
your saddle, Farber? Your bag-of-bones kicked out six miles from here.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: but Hadleyburg, and they know it. It's a great card for us. I must
get to the printing-office now, or I shall be too late."
"But stop--stop--don't leave me here alone with it, Edward!"
But he was gone. For only a little while, however. Not far from
his own house he met the editor--proprietor of the paper, and gave
him the document, and said "Here is a good thing for you, Cox--put
it in."
"It may be too late, Mr. Richards, but I'll see."
At home again, he and his wife sat down to talk the charming mystery
over; they were in no condition for sleep. The first question was,
Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
