| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: seen the children of my dead comrades scattered like leaves from
a smitten tree never to meet again. I had left my parents' roof
to be buffeted about by strikes and unemployment, and I feared
that our home would be lost and my brothers scattered forever.
The voice of hate was whispering that the "classes" would ride
down the children of the poor, and with this gloomy thought I
went to bed. My couch was a bed of coal slack, and I was
journeying to a mill town in a freight car.
As we rolled along, I saw in a vision train after train of
lodge men going to some happy city. They were miners and steel
workers, as well as clerks and teachers, and they were banded
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: "Well, you take my tip," she leaned forward as though about to
impart a very valuable bit of information. "Don't you never go
in for ridin'. There ain't no act on earth so hard as a ridin'
act. The rest of the bunch has got it easy alongside of us.
Take the fellows on the trapeze. They always get their tackle up
in jes' the same place. Take the balancin' acts; there ain't no
difference in their layouts. Take any of 'em as depends on
regular props; and they ain't got much chance a-goin' wrong. But
say, when yer have ter do a ridin' act, there ain't never no two
times alike. If your horse is feelin' good, the ground is
stumbly; if the ground ain't on the blink the horse is wobbly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: "I believe, Anderson," said Lord Menteith, looking back to one of
his servants, for both were close behind him, "you can assure
this gentleman, we shall have more occasion for experienced
officers, and be more disposed to profit by their instructions,
than he seems to be aware of."
"With your honour's permission," said Anderson, respectfully
raising his cap, "when we are joined by the Irish infantry, who
are expected, and who should be landed in the West Highlands
before now, we shall have need of good soldiers to discipline our
levies."
"And I should like well--very well, to be employed in such
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