| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: am anxious to greet my friend the Tin Woodman."
So they remounted the Saw-Horse, Tip holding to the post, the Pumpkinhead
clinging to Tip, and the Scarecrow with both arms around the wooden form of
Jack.
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TIP STUFFS THE SCARECROW WITH DRY STRAW.
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"Go slowly, for now there is no danger of pursuit," said Tip to his steed.
"All right!" responded the creature, in a voice rather gruff.
"Aren't you a little hoarse?" asked the Pumpkinhead politely.
The Saw-Horse gave an angry prance and rolled one knotty eye backward toward
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: awkwardness of having such a man for a lawyer--still it's an old
story now, and there is such a thing as gratitude, and, in short,
my legal business, although now (I am thankful to say) of quite a
placid character, remains entirely in Michael's hands. But the
trouble is I have no natural talent for addresses; I learn one
for every man--that is friendship's offering; and the friend who
subsequently changes his residence is dead to me, memory refusing
to pursue him. Thus it comes about that, as I always write to
Michael at his office, I cannot swear to his number in the King's
Road. Of course (like my neighbours), I have been to dinner
there. Of late years, since his accession to wealth, neglect of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: "I will show you any way, Sir Daniel, but the way to change sides,"
returned Clipsby, sturdily.
Sir Daniel laughed a guffaw.
"Why, well said!" he cried. "Hast a shrewd tongue in thy mouth, go
to! I will forgive you for that merry word. Selden, see them fed,
both man and brute."
The knight re-entered the inn.
"Now, friend Dick," he said, "fall to. Here is good ale and bacon.
Eat, while that I read."
Sir Daniel opened the packet, and as he read his brow darkened.
When he had done he sat a little, musing. Then he looked sharply
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