| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: him. So even a tough like Alloway can love a woman!
"Bland stamped up an' down the room. He sure was dyin' hard.
"'Jennie,' he said, once more turnin' to her. 'You swear in
fear of your life thet you're tellin' truth. Kate's not in love
with Duane? She's let him come to see you? There's been nuthin'
between them?'
"'No. I swear,' answered Jennie; an' Bland sat down like a man
licked.
"'Go to bed, you white-faced--' Bland choked on some word or
other--a bad one, I reckon--an' he positively shook in his
chair.
The Lone Star Ranger |
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 Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'emselves like dogs lickin' bites. Now and then a Spanisher would
fire from a low port, and the ball 'ud troll across the flat swells,
but both sides was finished fightin' for that tide.
'The first ship we foreslowed on, her breastworks was crushed
in, an' men was shorin' 'em up. She said nothing. The next was a
black pinnace, his pumps clackin' middling quick, and he said
nothing. But the third, mending shot-holes, he spoke out plenty .
I asked him where Mus' Drake might be, and a shiny-suited man
on the poop looked down into us, and saw what we carried.
'"Lay alongside you!" he says. "We'll take that all."
'"'Tis for Mus' Drake," I says, keeping away lest his size
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