| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: them only to find himself back again ere along at the same place,[3]
he must make a series of circuits and sweep round the medley of
tracks, till he finds out where they really lead.[4]
[1] Lit. "I say it is no use setting out with dogs to this chase."
[2] {kaei}. Cf. Arrian, xiv. 5.
[3] Reading {ekonta} sc. {ton kunegeten . . .} or if {ekonta, kuklous}
[sc. {ta ikhne}], transl. "if the tracks are involved, doubling on
themselves and coming back eventually to the same place."
[4] Or, "where the end of the string is."
The hare makes many windings, being at a loss to find a resting-place,
and at the same time she is accustomed to deal subtly[5] in her method
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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 In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: what sense of envy or design of mischief; his white, handsome face
(which I beheld with loathing) looked in upon us at all hours
across the fence; and once, from a safe distance, he avenged
himself by shouting a recondite island insult, to us quite
inoffensive, on his English lips incredibly incongruous.
Our enclosure, round which this composite of degradations wandered,
was of some extent. In one corner was a trellis with a long table
of rough boards. Here the Fourth of July feast had been held not
long before with memorable consequences, yet to be set forth; here
we took our meals; here entertained to a dinner the king and
notables of Makin. In the midst was the house, with a verandah
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