| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: day, however, she was intent upon the hay. In a
lull of the tempest she spoke.
"It is a pity," she said, "that I was not able to
get the hay cocked and the covers on."
Then Imogen turned large, sarcastic blue eyes
upon her. Imogen was considered a beauty, pink
and white, golden-haired, and dimpled, with a curi-
ous calculating hardness of character and a sharp
tongue, so at variance with her appearance that
people doubted the evidence of their senses.
"If," said Imogen, "you had only made Benny
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: Part 1
On the night of the twenty-second of December Jeff left the
_World_ building and moved down Powers Avenue to the all night
restaurant he usually frequented. The man who was both cook and
waiter remembered afterwards that Farnum called for coffee,
sausage, and a waffle.
Before the editor left the waffle house it was the morning of the
twenty-third. He had never felt less sleepy. Nor did a book and a
pipe before his gas log seem quite what he wanted. The vagabond
streak in him was awake, the same potent wanderlust that as a boy
had driven him to the solitude of the forests and the hills. This
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