| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: if I ever come in gun-shot of the ranch. You remember the sign she
used to send, Baldy--the heart with a cross inside of it?"
"Me?" cried Baldy, with intoxicated archness. "You old sugar-stealing
coyote! Don't I remember! Why, you dad-blamed old long-horned turtle-
dove, the boys in camp was all cognoscious about them hiroglyphs. The
'gizzard-and-crossbones' we used to call it. We used to see 'em on
truck that was sent out from the ranch. They was marked in charcoal on
the sacks of flour and in lead-pencil on the newspapers. I see one of
'em once chalked on the back of a new cook that old man McAllister
sent out from the ranch--danged if I didn't."
"Santa's father," explained Webb gently, "got her to promise that she
Heart of the West |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: heart. He told Peace that he did not believe his statement that
he had fired the pistol merely to frighten the constable; had not
Robinson guarded his head with his arm he would have been wounded
fatally, and Peace condemned to death. He did not consider it
necessary, he said, to make an inquiry into Peace's antecedents;
he was a desperate burglar, and there was an end of the matter.
Notwithstanding his age, Mr. Justice Hawkins felt it his duty
to sentence him to penal servitude for life. The severity of the
sentence was undoubtedly a painful surprise to Peace; to a man of
sixty years of age it would be no doubt less terrible, but to a
man of forty-six it was crushing.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: during which there was no fighting and nothing serious happened. We
arrived in due course at Sikonyela's and stated our errand. When he saw
how numerous and well armed we were, and that behind us was all the
might of the Zulu army, that wily old rascal thought it well to
surrender the stolen cattle without further to-do, and with these some
horses which he had lifted from the Boers. So, having received them, we
delivered them over to the Zulu captains, with instructions to drive
them carefully to Umgungundhlovu. The commandant sent a message by
these men to the effect that, having fulfilled his part of the compact,
he would wait upon Dingaan as soon as possible in order to conclude the
treaty about the land.
Marie |
