| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: so I thought that Merrylegs was well off. John had the offer
of several good places, but he said he should wait a little and look round.
The evening before they left the master came into the stable
to give some directions, and to give his horses the last pat.
He seemed very low-spirited; I knew that by his voice.
I believe we horses can tell more by the voice than many men can.
"Have you decided what to do, John?" he said. "I find you have not accepted
either of those offers."
"No, sir; I have made up my mind that if I could get a situation
with some first-rate colt-breaker and horse-trainer, it would be
the right thing for me. Many young animals are frightened and spoiled
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: An old Catholic family had died out in it, century by century,
and was now altogether dead. Portions of the fabric are
thirteenth century, and its last architectural revision was
Tudor; within, it is for the most part dark and chilly, save for
two or three favoured rooms and its tall-windowed, oak-galleried
hall. Its terrace is its noblest feature; a very wide, broad
lawn it is, bordered by a low stone battlement, and there is a
great cedar in one corner under whose level branches one looks
out across the blue distances of the Weald, blue distances that
are made extraordinarily Italian in quality by virtue of the
dark masses of that single tree. It is a very high terrace;
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