| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: were all different.
I sat listening; and it came in my mind that I had scarce ever heard
him address three serious words to any woman, but he was always
drolling and fleering and making a private mock of them, and yet
brought to that business a remarkable degree of energy and interest.
Something to this effect I remarked to him, when the good-wife (as
chanced) was called away.
"What do ye want?" says he. "A man should aye put his best foot forrit
with the womankind; he should aye give them a bit of a story to divert
them, the poor lambs! It's what ye should learn to attend to, David;
ye should get the principles, it's like a trade. Now, if this had been
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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 The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: woods camps should break up, he would be able to pick up more
workmen.
"They won't be rivermen like my old crew, though," said Orde
regretfully to Tom North, the walking boss. "I'd like to steal a
few from some of those Muskegon outfits."
Until the logs should be well adrift, Orde had resolved to boss the
rear crew himself.
As the rear was naturally the farthest up stream, Orde had taken
also the contract to break the rollways belonging to Carlin, which
in the season's work would be piled up on the bank. Thus he could
get to work immediately at the break-up, and without waiting for
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