| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: advance, and away we go!"
CHAPTER IX - SOLDIER BOY AND SHEKELS AGAIN
"Well, this is the way it happened. We did the escort duty; then
we came back and struck for the plain and put the Rangers through a
rousing drill - oh, for hours! Then we sent them home under
Brigadier-General Fanny Marsh; then the Lieutenant-General and I
went off on a gallop over the plains for about three hours, and
were lazying along home in the middle of the afternoon, when we met
Jimmy Slade, the drummer-boy, and he saluted and asked the
Lieutenant-General if she had heard the news, and she said no, and
he said:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: jest, 'Is this he who mentions your gods?' Yet they at the mention
of the Merciful do disbelieve.
Man is created out of haste. I will show you my signs; but do not
hurry Me.
And they say, 'When will this threat (come to pass), if ye tell
the truth?'
Did those who misbelieve but know when the fire shall not be
warded off from their faces nor from their backs, and they shall not
be helped! Nay, it shall come on them suddenly, and shall
dumbfounder them, and they shall not be able to repel it, nor shall
they be respited.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: that had ventured among them; that it was to climb the Rocky
Mountains and descend into desolate and famished regions, where
the traveller was often obliged to subsist on grasshoppers and
crickets, or to kill his own horse for food.
At length one man was hardy enough to engage, and he was used
like a "stool-pigeon," to decoy others; but several days elapsed
before any more could be prevailed upon to join him. A few then
came to terms. It was desirable to engage them for five years,
but some refused to engage for more than three. Then they must
have part of their pay in advance, which was readily granted.
When they had pocketed the amount, and squandered it in regales
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