| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: track the deer and buffalo. Every day he came home carrying on his
back some wild game. This kept mother badger very busy, and the
baby badgers very chubby. While the well-fed children played
about, digging little make-believe dwellings, their mother hung
thin sliced meats upon long willow racks. As fast as the meats
were dried and seasoned by sun and wind, she packed them carefully
away in a large thick bag.
This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more
beautiful to see, for it was painted all over with many bright
colors. These firmly tied bags of dried meat were laid upon the
rocks in the walls of the dwelling. In this way they were both
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: Don't tease, but go home and rest, for you'll be up half the night.
Bless you, Teddy, bless you!"
Jo had backed into a corner, and as she finished her speech,
she vanished precipitately into the kitchen, where she sat down
upon a dresser and told the assembled cats that she was "happy,
oh, so happy!" while Laurie departed, feeling that he had made a
rather neat thing of it.
"That's the interferingest chap I ever see, but I forgive
him and do hope Mrs. March is coming right away," said Hannah,
with an air of relief, when Jo told the good news.
Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: as little overridden by absurd rules of seniority, as by that
etiquette which is at once the counterfeit and the ruin of true
discipline. Under Elizabeth and her ministers, a brave and a
shrewd man was certain of promotion, let his rank or his age be
what they might; the true honor of knighthood covered once and for
all any lowliness of birth; and the merchant service (in which all
the best sea-captains, even those of noble blood, were more or less
engaged) was then a nursery, not only for seamen, but for warriors,
in days when Spanish and Portuguese traders (whenever they had a
chance) got rid of English competition by salvos of cannon-shot.
Hence, as I have said, that strong fellow-feeling between officers
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