| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: caulk yure wanigan for ye. Or maybe some more peavies, and we'll
hilp ye on yure rollways. And till us, afore ye go, how ye want
this dam, and that's the way she'll be. Come, now, dear! and ain't
ye short-handed now?"
Orde slapped his knee and laughed.
"This is sure one hell of a joke!" he cried.
"And ain't it now?" said the Rough Red, smiling with as much
ingratiation as he was able.
"I'll take you boys on," said Orde at last, "at the usual wages--
dollar and a half for the jam, three for the rear. I doubt if
you'll see much of Heinzman's money when this leaks out."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: above all in heavy weather, there is no man could take a boat
within half a mile of it, nor a ship afloat that could either steer
or live in such a place. You can hear the roaring of it six miles
away. At the seaward end there comes the strongest of the bubble;
and it's here that these big breakers dance together - the dance of
death, it may be called - that have got the name, in these parts,
of the Merry Men. I have heard it said that they run fifty feet
high; but that must be the green water only, for the spray runs
twice as high as that. Whether they got the name from their
movements, which are swift and antic, or from the shouting they
make about the turn of the tide, so that all Aros shakes with it,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: internally he was saying to himself: "man of strong mettle,
indeed!"
"We'll attend to all the clothes for the child," said Aggie
generously to Jimmy.
"I want everything to be hand-made," exclaimed Zoie
enthusiastically.
"We can make a great many of the things ourselves, evenings,"
said Aggie, "while we sit here and talk to Jimmy."
"I thought we were going OUT evenings!" objected Zoie.
Jimmy rolled his eyes toward her like a dumb beast of burden.
"MOST evenings," assented Aggie. "And then toward the last, you
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