| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: head, black and bright; forehead large and broad; the depression
between the eyes pronounced;[3] ears long[4] and thin, without hair on
the under side; neck long and flexible, freely moving on its pivot;[5]
chest broad and fairly fleshy; shoulder-blades detached a little from
the shoulders;[6] the shin-bones of the fore-legs should be small,
straight, round, stout and strong; the elbows straight; ribs[7] not
deep all along, but sloped away obliquely; the loins muscular, in size
a mean between long and short, neither too flexible nor too stiff;[8]
flanks, a mean between large and small; the hips (or "couples")
rounded, fleshy behind, not tied together above, but firmly knitted on
the inside;[9] the lower or under part of the belly[10] slack, and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: to say it. This little incident put me into rather a better humour,
especially as the buck had rolled right against the after-part of the
waggon, so I had only to gut him, fix a reim round his legs, and haul
him up. By the time I had done this the sun was down, and the full moon
was up, and a beautiful moon it was. And then there came that wonderful
hush which sometimes falls over the African bush in the early hours of
the night. No beast was moving, and no bird called. Not a breath of
air stirred the quiet trees, and the shadows did not even quiver, they
only grew. It was very oppressive and very lonely, for there was not a
sign of the cattle or the boys. I was quite thankful for the society of
old Kaptein, who was lying down contentedly against the disselboom,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: dozen times a day he could see a picture of the tilted little
coaxing mouth. The gurgle of her laughter called to him for hours
before he left the office.
He got into the habit of talking to her about the things that were
troubling him--the tactics of the enemy, the desertion of friends,
the dubious issue of the campaign. Curled up in a big chair, her
whole attention absorbed in what he was saying Nellie made a good
listener. If she did not show a full understanding of the
situation, he could always sense her ready sympathy. Her naive,
indignant loyalty was touching.
"I read what the _Advocate_ said about you today," she told him
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