| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: The threatened turbulence quieted as he approached, and the crowd
moved sullenly aside to let him pass. He did not bring any pilot
with him, and he jumped down into the stern of the boat, saying,
briefly, "Push off." The crowd of loungers stood looking after
them as they rowed away, and when the boat was some distance from
the landing they burst out into a volley of derisive yells. "The
villains!" said the boatswain, "they are all in league together.
They wouldn't even let me go up into the settlement to look for a
pilot."
The lieutenant and his sailing master stood watching the boat as
it approached. "Couldn't you, then, get a pilot, Baldwin?" said
 Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
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 Virginian by Owen Wister: "She's not much like the eating-house lady at Medicine Bow," I
said.
He gave a hilarious chuckle. "No, Em'ly knows nothing o' them
joys. So yu' have no notion about her? Well, I've got one. I
reckon maybe she was hatched after a big thunderstorm."
"In a big thunderstorm!" I exclaimed.
"Yes. Don't yu' know about them, and what they'll do to aiggs? A
big case o' lightnin' and thunder will addle aiggs and keep 'em
from hatchin'. And I expect one came along, and all the other
aiggs of Em'ly's set didn't hatch out, but got plumb addled, and
she happened not to get addled that far, and so she just managed
 The Virginian |