| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: bitches to be released from hard work, so that with the repose so
secured they may produce a fine litter in spring."
[2] Lit. "this necessity holds." Cf. Aristot. "H. A." vi. 20; Arrian,
xxvii., xxxi. 3.
[3] Cf. Eur. "Tro." 753, {o khrotos edu pneuma}.
[4] Cf. Arrian, xxx. 2; Pollux, v. 50; Columella, vii. 12, 12, ap.
Schneid.
Presently, when the puppies are strong enough to roam about, they
should be given milk[5] for a whole year, along with what will form
their staple diet in the future, but nothing else. A heavy diet will
distort the legs of a young dog, engender disease in other limbs, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: 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
used to making camp wherever I happened to be. Accordingly, I took hold of
the deer, and dragged him down the hollow till I came to a leaning slab of
rock.
Skinning a deer was, of course, new to me. I haggled the flesh somewhat and
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: greater lust to lie in tents without than for to lie in castle or
in towns. And they prize nothing the wit of other nations.
And amongst them oil of olive is full dear, for they hold it for
full noble medicine. And all the Tartars have small eyen and
little of beard, and not thick haired but shear. And they be false
and traitors; and they last nought that they behote. They be full
hardy folk, and much pain and woe may suffer and disease, more than
any other folk, for they be taught thereto in their own country of
youth. And therefore they spend as who saith, right nought.
And when any man shall die, men set a spear beside him. And when
he draweth towards the death, every man fleeth out of the house
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