| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: ``Not mine. Spears, you're delaying the
game.''
``I tell you it was a rotten decision,'' yelled
Spears. The bleachers agreed with him.
Carter grew red in the face. He and Spears
had before then met in field squabbles, and he
showed it.
``Fifty dollars!''
``More! You cheap-skate you piker! More!''
``It's a hundred!''
``Put me out of the game!'' roared Spears.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: works? Where are they who run to Rome, to St. James, hither and
thither? Take up this one single work of the mass, look on your
neighbor's sin and ruin, and have pity on him; let it grieve you,
tell it to God, and pray over it. Do the same for every other
need of Christendom, especially of the rulers, whom God, for the
intolerable punishment and torment of us all, allows to fall and
be misled so terribly. If you do this diligently, be assured you
are one of the best fighters and captains, not only against the
Turks, but also against the devils and the powers of hell. But
if you do it not, what would it help you though you performed all
the miracles of the saints, and murdered all the Turks, and yet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: knock me down in the dust there if you want to,
and spoil my nice clean dress. You will be a boy,
just the same."
"I will never marry you, anyway," declared
Johnny.
"Aren't you afraid I'll tell on you and get you
another spanking if you don't?"
"Tell if you want to. I'd enough sight rather be
spanked than marry you."
A gleam of respect came into the little girl's
wisely regarding blue eyes. She, with the swiftness
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