| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: trees and grass. She halted the horse at the brink of the slide and glanced
down it with a measuring eye. Forty feet beneath, the slide terminated in a
small, firm-surfaced terrace, the banked accumulation of fallen earth and
gravel.
"It's a good test," she called across the canyon. "I'm going to put him down
it."
The animal gingerly launched himself on the treacherous footing, irregularly
losing and gaining his hind feet, keeping his fore legs stiff, and steadily
and calmly, without panic or nervousness, extricating the fore feet as fast as
they sank too deep into the sliding earth that surged along in a wave before
him. When the firm footing at the bottom was reached, he strode out on the
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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 Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: the whole island of Cuba, aroused and determined upon their
extermination. Not only did they make good their escape, but they
brought away with them a vast amount of plunder, computed at
three hundred thousand pieces of eight, besides five hundred head
of cattle and many prisoners held for ransom.
But when the division of all this wealth came to be made, lo!
there were only fifty thousand pieces of eight to be found. What
had become of the rest no man could tell but Capt. Henry Morgan
himself. Honesty among thieves was never an axiom with him.
Rude, truculent, and dishonest as Captain Morgan was, he seems to
have had a wonderful power of persuading the wild buccaneers
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