| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: That same day, several hours after Wetzel's departure in quest of the turkey,
Alfred Clarke strolled over from the fort and found Colonel Zane in the yard.
The Colonel was industriously stirring the contents of a huge copper kettle
which swung over a brisk wood fire. The honeyed fragrance of apple-butter
mingled with the pungent odor of burning hickory.
"Morning, Alfred, you see they have me at it," was the Colonel's salute.
"So I observe," answered Alfred, as he seated himself on the wood-pile. "What
is it you are churning so vigorously?"
"Apple-butter, my boy, apple-butter. I don't allow even Bessie to help when I
am making apple-butter."
"Colonel Zane, I have come over to ask a favor. Ever since you notified us
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: CHAPTER VIII.
BOOKBINDERS.
IN the first chapter I mentioned bookbinders among the Enemies
of Books, and I tremble to think what a stinging retort might be made
if some irate bibliopegist were to turn the scales on the printer,
and place HIM in the same category. On the sins of printers,
and the unnatural neglect which has often shortened the lives
of their typographical progeny, it is not for me to dilate.
There is an old proverb, " 'Tis an ill bird that befouls its
own nest"; a curious chapter thereupon, with many modern examples,
might nevertheless be written. This I will leave, and will now
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: vessel or boat must have been wrecked upon the rock during the
night; and it seemed probable that the rock might be strewed
with dead bodies, a spectacle which could not fail to deter
the artificers from returning so freely to their work. In the
midst of these reveries the boat took the ground at an
improper landing-place; but, without waiting to push her off,
he leapt upon the rock, and making his way hastily to the spot
which had privately given him alarm, he had the satisfaction
to ascertain that he had only been deceived by the peculiar
situation and aspect of the smith's anvil and block, which
very completely represented the appearance of a lifeless body
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