| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: proportion of the timbers found their way into the bayou. Those
that continued on down the river could hardly have much effect on
the jam.
The work was breathless in its speed. From one to another sweat-
bathed, panting man the logs were handed on. As yet only the
advance of the big jam had arrived at the dredged channel.
Orde looked about him and realised this.
"We can't keep this up when the main body hits us," he panted to his
neighbour, Jim Denning. "We'll have to do some more pile-driver
work."
He made a rapid excursion to the boom camp, whence he returned with
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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 The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: chill of fear, the thought of the confounded ingredients with
which the house was stored. A powder magazine seemed a
secure smoking-room alongside of the Superfluous Mansion.
He sought refuge in flight, in locomotion, in the flowing
bowl. As long as the bars were open, he travelled from one
to another, seeking light, safety, and the companionship of
human faces; when these resources failed him, he fell back on
the belated baked-potato man; and at length, still pacing the
streets, he was goaded to fraternise with the police. Alas,
with what a sense of guilt he conversed with these guardians
of the law; how gladly had he wept upon their ample bosoms;
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