| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: enthusiasm.
"I got to ride the boundary," sighed Missou. "I kinder hate to go
right now."
"Here, too," acquiesced another. "I got a round-up on Wind Creek
to cut out them two-year-olds. If 'twas my say-so, I'd order Mac
on that job."
"Right kind of y'u. Seems to me"--Mac's sarcastic eye trailed
around to include all those who had been singing her
praises--"the new queen of this hacienda won't have no trouble at
all picking a prince consort when she gets round to it. Here's
Wun Hop, not what y'u might call anxious, but ce'tainly willing.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: stoned. See Thirlwall, "Hist. Gr." IV. xxix. 93 note.
It was at this period also that the Lacedaemonians allowed their
revolted helots from Malea, who had found an asylum at Coryphasium, to
depart under a flag of truce. It was also about the same period that
the Achaeans betrayed the colonists of Heracleia Trachinia, when they
were all drawn up in battle to meet the hostile Oetaeans, whereby as
many as seven hundred of them were lost, together with the governor[4]
from Lacedaemon, Labotas. Thus the year came to its close--a year
marked further by a revolt of the Medes from Darius, the king of
Persia, followed by renewed submission to his authority.
[4] Technically {armostes} (harmost), i.e. administrator.
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