| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: hurriedly up and down.
"You have been very imprudent," said the merchant. "Why send Brigitte
to buy those provisions?"
"But he may arrive half-dead with hunger, exhausted, and--"
She could say no more.
"I am sure of my brother the mayor," said the old man. "I will see him
at once, and put him in your interests."
After talking with the mayor, the shrewd old man made visits on
various pretexts to the principal families of Carentan, to all of whom
he mentioned that Madame de Dey, in spite of her illness, would
receive her friends that evening. Matching his own craft against those
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: with him his whole family. Little cubs played under the
high-hanging new meats. They laughed and pointed with their wee
noses upward at the thin sliced meats upon the poles.
"Have you no heart, Black Bear? My children are starving.
Give me a small piece of meat for them," begged the badger.
"Wa-ough!" growled the angry bear, and pounced upon the
badger. "Be gone!" said he, and with his big hind foot he sent
father badger sprawling on the ground.
All the little ruffian bears hooted and shouted "ha-ha!" to
see the beggar fall upon his face. There was one, however, who did
not even smile. He was the youngest cub. His fur coat was not as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: whole of the fair, which, thanks to the people who com-
posed it, required an ever-watchful surveillance.
This plain was now covered with booths symmetrically
arranged in such a manner as to leave avenues broad enough
to allow the crowd to pass without a crush.
Each group of these booths, of all sizes and shapes,
formed a separate quarter particularly dedicated to some
special branch of commerce. There was the iron quarter,
the furriers' quarter, the woolen quarter, the quarter of the
wood merchants, the weavers' quarter, the dried fish quar-
ter, etc. Some booths were even built of fancy materials,
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