| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: feathers, we were a high-born company. I threw forward the
Scottish flank of my own ancestry, and passed muster as a
clansman with applause. There was, indeed, but one small
cloud on this red-letter day. I had laid in a large supply of the
national beverage, in the shape of The "Rob Roy MacGregor
O" Blend, Warranted Old and Vatted; and this must certainly
have been a generous spirit, for I had some anxious work
between four and half-past, conveying on board the inanimate
forms of chieftains.
To one of our ordinary festivities, where he was the life and
soul of his own mess, Pinkerton himself came incognito,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: twisted up with having children too quickly."
"I see you've got a new help," commented old Mother Grathwohl.
"Oh, dear Lord"--the Frau lowered her voice--"don't you know her? She's
the free-born one--daughter of the waitress at the railway station. They
found her mother trying to squeeze her head in the wash-hand jug, and the
child's half silly."
"Ts--ts--ts!" whispered the "free-born" one to the baby.
As the day drew in the Child-Who-Was-Tired did not know how to fight her
sleepiness any longer. She was afraid to sit down or stand still. As she
sat at supper the Man and the Frau seemed to swell to an immense size as
she watched them, and then become smaller than dolls, with little voices
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: stopped at the Case mail box where Jeb and his son
Willie were, as usual, waiting his coming, for the rural
free delivery man often carries more news than is con-
tained in his mail sacks.
"Mornin' Jeb," he called, as he swerved his light car
from the road and drew up in front of the Case gate.
"Mornin', Jim!" returned Mr. Case. "Nice rain we had
last night. What's the news?"
"Plenty! Plenty!" exclaimed the carrier. "Lived here
nigh onto forty year, man an' boy, an' never seen such
work before in all my life."
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