| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Just a second, please!" called Shaggy, taking
the Love Magnet from his pocket. "I guess this
will win their love, Princess. Here--take it in
your hand and let the roses see it."
Princess Ozga took the Magnet and held it
poised before the eyes of her subjects; but the
Roses regarded it with calm disdain.
"Why, what's the matter?" demanded Shaggy in
surprise. "The Magnet never failed to work
before!"
"I know," said Betsy, nodding her head wisely.
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Yes. His name was Leopold Winkler, that was in the papers to-day
too. You see that pretty house opposite? Well, right behind this
house is the garden that belongs to it and back of that, an old
garden which has been neglected for some time. It was at the end
of this garden where it touches the other street, that they found
the man under a big elder-tree, early Tuesday morning, day before
yesterday."
"Oh, indeed!" said. Muller, greatly interested, as if this was
the first he had heard of it. The landlord took a deep breath and
was about to begin again when his customer, who decided to keep the
talkative man to a certain phase of the subject, now took command
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: believe that at this art, although then I lacked the practice which
since has come to me in such plenty, I was as good as a youth as I have
ever been in later days, and, of course, far better than I am now. This
I soon proved upon the present occasion, for seated there in that kloof,
after a few trials, I found that I could bring down quite a number of
even the swift, straight-flying rock pigeons as they sped over me, and
this, be it remembered, not with shot, but with a single bullet, a feat
that many would hold to be incredible.
So the days passed, and I practised, every evening finding me a little
better at this terribly difficult sport. For always I learned more as
to the exact capacities of my rifle and the allowance that must be made
Marie |
