| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: Their faces were keen and serious, their eyes eloquent with the
ecstasy of living that was upon them--for this was living, this
game of life and death, and to them it was the only game a man
should play, withal they played it in low and cowardly ways,
killing from behind in the dim forest gloom and rarely coming out
into the open.
Sheldon whispered the word, and the ten runners leaped forward--for
Binu Charley ran with them. The bushman's keen ears warned him,
and he sprang to his feet, bow and arrow in hand, the arrow fixed
in the notch and the bow bending as he sprang. The man he let
drive at dodged the arrow, and before he could shoot another his
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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 Young Forester by Zane Grey: deer leaped down the slope, staggered, and crumpled down in a heap.
I tore through the bushes, and had almost reached the bottom of the hollow
when I remembered that a wounded deer was dangerous. So I halted. The gray
form was as still as stone. I ventured closer. The deer was dead. My bullet
had entered high above the shoulder at the juncture of the neck. Though I
had only aimed at him generally, I took a good deal of pride in my first
shot at a deer.
Fortunately my pen-knife had a fair-sized blade. With it I decided to cut
out part of the deer and carry it back to my camp. Then it occurred to me
that I might as well camp where I was. There were several jumbles of rock
and a cliff within a stone's-throw of where I stood. Besides, I must get
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