| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: was sure that the little dog would
come--she popped HER pie into the
oven. There were two ovens, one
above the other; some other knobs
and handles were only ornamental
and not intended to open. Ribby put
the pie into the lower oven; the door
was very stiff.
"The top oven bakes too quickly,"
said Ribby to herself.
Ribby put on some coal and swept
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: endured more patiently an absolute privation of liberty than the
more modified restrictions to which my residence in the Sanctuary
at this period subjected me. If, however, the feelings I then
experienced were to increase in intensity according to the
difference between a jail and my actual condition, I must have
hanged myself, or pined to death--there could have been no other
alternative.
Amongst many companions who forgot and neglected me, of course,
when my difficulties seemed to be inextricable, I had one true
friend; and that friend was a barrister, who knew the laws of his
country well, and tracing them up to the spirit of equity and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: remainder, whether for resisting a charge of horse, or for
breaking the infantry. A common smith will make a hundred pike-
heads in a day; here is plenty of wood for shafts; and I will
uphold, that, according to the best usages of war, a strong
battalion of pikes, drawn up in the fashion of the Lion of the
North, the immortal Gustavus, would beat the Macedonian phalanx,
of which I used to read in the Mareschal-College, when I studied
in the ancient town of Bon-accord; and further, I will venture to
predicate--"
The Captain's lecture upon tactics was here suddenly interrupted
by Allan M'Aulay, who said, hastily,--"Room for an unexpected and
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