| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: made to take me himself; but I repeated the mummery and his grit
went out through his fingers.
"'Let your shamans work wonders the like of which I have done this
night,' I says. 'Let them call Killisnoo down out of the sky
whither I have sent her.' But the priests knew their limits.
'May your klooches bear you sons as the spawn of the salmon,' I
says, turning to go; 'and may your totem pole stand long in the
land, and the smoke of your camp rise always.'
"But if the beggars could have seen me hitting the high places for
the sloop as soon as I was clear of them, they'd thought my own
medicine had got after me. Tilly'd kept warm by chopping the ice
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: needs destroy it in a vain attempt to make it your own or parade
it as an advertisement."
As for M'sieu Fortier, he went right on with his song and turned
into Bayou Road, his shoulders still shrugged high as though he
were cold, and into the quaint little house, where Ma'am Jeanne
and the white cat, who always waited up for him at nights, were
both nodding over the fire.
It was not long after this that the opera closed, and M'sieu went
back to his old out-of-season job. But somehow he did not do as
well this spring and summer as always. There is a certain amount
of cunning and finesse required to roll a cigar just so, that
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