| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: before me; but I had something on my mind. It was only a fancy;
yet a fancy will sometimes be importunate. I had been most
hospitably received and punctually served in my green caravanserai.
The room was airy, the water excellent, and the dawn had called me
to a moment. I say nothing of the tapestries or the inimitable
ceiling, nor yet of the view which I commanded from the windows;
but I felt I was in some one's debt for all this liberal
entertainment. And so it pleased me, in a half-laughing way, to
leave pieces of money on the turf as I went along, until I had left
enough for my night's lodging. I trust they did not fall to some
rich and churlish drover.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: the foot of the hill Goree stopped again.
"Did you ever suspect I was a very vain kind of fellow,
Colonel" he asked. "Sort of foolish proud about
appearances?"
The colonel's eyes refused to wander to the soiled, sag-
ging suit of flax and the faded slouch hat.
"It seems to me," he replied, mystified, but humouring
him, "I remember a young buck about twenty, with the
tightest coat, the sleekest hair, and the prancingest saddle
horse in the Blue Ridge."
"Right you are," said Goree eagerly. "And it's in
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