| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: said Bob Tidball, cheerfully philosophical. "It ain't
the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us
turn out the way we do."
Shark Dodson got up and leaned against a tree.
"I'd a good deal rather that sorrel of yourn hadn't
hurt himself, Bob," he said again, almost pathetically.
"Same here," agreed Bob; "he was sure a first-rate
kind of a crowbait. But Bolivar, he'll pull us through
all right. Reckon we'd better be movin' on, hadn't
we, Shark? I'll bag this boodle ag'in and we'll hit the
trail for higher timber."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: her!"
"You must indeed stop, noble Lady Edith," said Calista, taking
her arm gently; "and you, royal madam, I am sure, will go, and
without further dallying. If the Lady Edith goes alone to the
King, he will be dreadfully incensed, nor will it be one life
that will stay his fury."
"I will go--I will go," said the Queen, yielding to necessity;
and Edith reluctantly halted to wait her movements.
They were now as speedy as she could have desired. The Queen
hastily wrapped herself in a large loose mantle, which covered
all inaccuracies of the toilet. In this guise, attended by Edith
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: protect their clothing from the dripping oil of their torches,
gathered in torchlight processions miles in length. Fence rails,
supposed to have been made by Lincoln in his youth, were set up
in party headquarters and trimmed with flowers and lighted
tapers. Lincoln was called the "Rail-splitter Candidate," and
this telling name, added to the equally telling "Honest Old Abe,"
by which he had long been known in Illinois, furnished country
and city campaign orators with a powerful appeal to the sympathy
and trust of the working-people of the United States. Men and
women read in newspaper and pamphlet biographies the story of his
humble beginnings: how he had risen by simple, earnest work and
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