| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: his life
over a desk, carefully keeping accounts--a rusty, dull little
man,
patient and narrow, whose wife had been in the insane asylum for
twenty years and whose only child was a crippled daughter, for
whose
comfort and happiness he had toiled and sacrificed himself
without stint.
It was a surprise to find him here, as care-free and joyful as
the rest.
The lives of others in the company were revealed in brief
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: retrospective, Kings Port the belated, who from her pensive porticoes
looks over her two rivers to the marshes and the trees beyond, the
live-oaks, veiled in gray moss, brooding with memories! Were she my city,
how I should love her!
But though my city she cannot be, the enchanting image of her is mine to
keep, to carry with me wheresoever I may go; for who, having seen her,
could forget her? Therefore I thank Aunt Carola for this gift, and for
what must always go with it in my mind, the quiet and strange romance
which I saw happen, and came finally to share in. Why it is that my Aunt
no longer wishes to know either the boy or the girl, or even to hear
their names mentioned, you shall learn at the end, when I have finished
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: you see it. Your animals are depending entirely on
the country; for of course you are carrying no dry
feed for them. Their pasturage will present itself
under a variety of aspects, all of which you must
recognize with certainty. Some of the greenest,
lushest, most satisfying-looking meadows grow nothing
but water-grasses of large bulk but small nutrition;
while apparently barren tracts often conceal small but
strong growths of great value. You must differentiate these.
Fifth, you must possess the ability to pare a hoof,
fit a shoe cold, nail it in place. A bare hoof does not
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