| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Wish, A............................. 16
What a Baby Costs................... 18
When Father Shook the Stove......... 154
When Pa Comes Home.................. 138
When Pa Counts...................... 108
When You Know a Fellow.............. 11
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
A man doesn't whine at his losses............. 142
A man must earn his hour of peace............. 109
Are you fond of your wife and your children... 57
As fall the leaves, so drop the days.......... 188
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: of our party for whom he felt anything approaching real affection
was the spaniel Tommy.
We set him down, fortunately uninjured, on some rugs, and also
in the shadow. Then, after a little while, we moved both of them
into the sun. It was quite curious to see them expand there. As
Bickley said, what happened to them might well be compared to the
development of a butterfly which has just broken from the living
grave of its chrysalis and crept into the full, hot radiance of
the light. Its crinkled wings unfold, their brilliant tints
develop; in an hour or two it is perfect, glorious, prepared for
life and flight, a new creature.
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: distress. Not content with rending my heart with your disdain, you
have been so little thoughtful as to retain a toothbrush, which my
means will not permit me to replace, my estates being mortgaged
beyond their value.
" 'Adieu, too fair and too ungrateful friend! May we meet again in
a better world.
" 'CHARLES EDWARD.'
"Assuredly (to avail ourselves yet further of Sainte-Beuve's
Babylonish dialect), this far outpasses the raillery of Sterne's
/Sentimental Journey/; it might be Scarron without his grossness. Nay,
I do not know but that Moliere in his lighter mood would not have said
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