| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: It was afternoon now. The preliminaries had been ridden, and half
a dozen of the best riders had been chosen by the judges to ride
again for the finals. Helen was wonderfully interested, because
in the six who were to ride again were included the two Bannister
cousins, her foreman, McWilliams, the young man "Texas," whom she
had met the day of her arrival at Gimlet Butte, and Tom Sanford,
who had last year won the championship.
She looked down on the arena, and her heart throbbed with the
pure joy of life. Already she loved her West and its picturesque,
chap-clad population. Their jingling spurs and their colored
kerchiefs knotted round sunburned necks, their frank,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: watching her sleeping guest. The even breathing
assured her that all was well. Her plan couldn't
fail. She listened again for the sobs in the shed-
room.
She was sure once that she heard them. Five
minutes passed and still she was uncertain. To avoid
any possible accident she tipped back through the
kitchen, circled the house and placed her ear against
the crack in the logs.
The girl was sobbing--or was she praying? She
crouched beside the wall, waited and listened. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: along this fella place sun he go down?"
"Me b'long Boucher. Too many boy belong along Port Adams stop
along my fella marster. Too much walk about."
The black drew a scrap of notepaper from under his belt and passed
it over. Sheldon scanned it hurriedly.
"It's from Boucher," he explained, "the fellow who took Packard's
place. Packard was the one I told you about who was killed by his
boat's-crew. He says the Port Adams crowd is out--fifty of them,
in big canoes--and camping on his beach. They've killed half a
dozen of his pigs already, and seem to be looking for trouble. And
he's afraid they may connect with the fifteen runaways from Lunga."
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