| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: nor were they smiling. They were solemnly eating up together a box of
handsome strawberries and sucking the juice from their reddened thumbs.
"Rather mean not to make him wait and have some of these after his hard
work on us," said Bertie. "I'd forgotten about them--"
"He ran out before you could remember, anyway," said Billy.
"Wasn't he absurd about his old notes? "Bertie went on, a new
strawberry in his mouth. "We don't need them, though. With to-morrow
we'll get this course down cold."
"Yes, to-morrow," sighed Billy. "It's awful to think of another day of
this kind."
"Horrible," assented Bertie.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: It is said to have been drawn, several years before
the present anti-slavery agitation began, by a north-
ern Methodist preacher, who, while residing at the
south, had an opportunity to see slaveholding mor-
als, manners, and piety, with his own eyes. "Shall
I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
A PARODY
 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: the suns of every clime, was pulled forward over his wrin-
kled face. His arched back was bent under an old cloak,
wrapped closely round him, notwithstanding the heat. It
would have been difficult, in this miserable dress, to judge
of either his size or face. Near him was the Tsigane, San-
garre, a woman about thirty years old. She was tall and
well made, with olive complexion, magnificent eyes, and
golden hair.
Many of the young dancers were remarkably pretty, all
possessing the clear-cut features of their race. These
Tsiganes are generally very attractive, and more than one
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