| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the fellow and turned to follow us from the room.
There seemed something menacing in their attitude toward
my beast, and I hesitated to leave until I had learned the
outcome. It was well I did so, for the warrior drew an
evil looking pistol from its holster and was on the point of
putting an end to the creature when I sprang forward and
struck up his arm. The bullet striking the wooden casing of
the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the
wood and masonry.
I then knelt down beside the fearsome-looking thing, and
raising it to its feet motioned for it to follow me. The looks
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: catch him one--a brat like that who ought to be at school still!"
Mme Lerat went to fetch a water bottle to mix herself some brandy
and water, the lumps of sugar having rendered her thirsty. Zoe
muttered something to the effect that she really didn't mind if she
drank something too. Her mouth, she averred, was as bitter as gall.
"So you put him--?" continued Mme Maloir.
"Oh yes, I put him in the closet at the end of the room, the little
unfurnished one. There's only one of my lady's trunks there and a
table. It's there I stow the lubbers."
And she was putting plenty of sugar in her grog when the electric
bell made her jump. Oh, drat it all! Wouldn't they let her have a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: could the boar be slain, so mighty was he; and many an one brought
he to the grievous pyre" (W. Leaf).
I will now explain how each part of the gear is to be used in hunting.
The company being come to some place where a boar is thought to lie,
the first step is to bring up the pack,[11] which done, they will
loose a single Laconian bitch, and keeping the rest in leash, beat
about with this one hound.[12] As soon as she has got on the boar's
track, let them follow in order, one after another, close on the
tracking hound, who gives the lead to the whole company.[13] Even to
the huntsmen themselves many a mark of the creature will be plain,
such as his footprints on soft portions of the ground, and in the
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