| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I nodded.
"The accident gave you the idea for the poisoned
arrows with which we fitted the warriors of the em-
pire," she continued. "And, too, it gave me an idea.
For a long time I have carried a viper's fang in my
bosom. It has given me strength to endure many dan-
gers, for it has always assured me immunity from the
ultimate insult. I am not ready to die yet. First let
Hooja embrace the viper's fang."
So we did not die together, and I am glad now
that we did not. It is always a foolish thing to con-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: and continued to stand watching the players and the progress
of the game, thinking nothing of the flight of time.
"At last one of the old men said to him:
" 'You have been here a long time, ought you not to go home?'
"This aroused him from his reverie, and he seemed to
awake as from a dream, his interest in the game passed
away, and he attempted to pick up his axe, but found that
it was covered with rust and the handle had moulded away.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: dik to see I didn't snap up any. Think o' that now!'
They laughed a good deal while he told them the tale.
'An' just as he crawled away I heard some one hollerin' to the
hounds in our woods,' said he. 'Didn't you hear? You must ha'
been asleep sure-ly.'
'Oh, what about the sleeper you promised to show us?'
Dan cried.
''Ere he be - house an' all!' Hobden dived into the prickly heart
of the faggot and took out a dormouse's wonderfully woven nest
of grass and leaves. His blunt fingers parted it as if it had been
precious lace, and tilting it toward the last of the light he showed
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