| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the first place the surface soil from the holes just dug, and atop of
that some unbroken solid earth from a distance, so that the lie of the
trap may be as much as possible unnoticed by the deer. Any earth left
over should be carried to a distance from the gin. The mere smell of
the newly-turned-up soil will suffice to make the animal
suspicious;[30] and smell it readily she will.
[27] Or, "remove a mass of soil to the depth of five palms so as to
form a circular hole corresponding in size with the rim above-
named."
[28] Or, "like a door over the cavity, somewhat below the surface,
flatwise"; i.e. "in a horizontal position."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: With him your soldiers spoke, of jealousy
And false suspect mongst them he strewed the seed,
That since brought forth the fruit of strife and jar,
Of civil brawls, contention, discord, war.
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"And as she wished so the soldiers thought
By Godfrey's practice that the prince was slain,
Yet vanished that suspicion false to naught
When truth spread forth her silver wings again
Her false devices thus Armida wrought,
This was her first deceit, her foremost train;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: boy, and try to realize that you are in my power. I do
not believe you can force me to liberate King Kitticut
and Queen Garee, and I know that you cannot coax me to
do so, for I have given my promise to King Gos.
Therefore, as I do not wish to hurt you, I ask you to
go away peaceably and let me alone."
"Forgive me if I do not agree with you, King Kaliko,"
answered the boy. "However difficult and dangerous my
task may be, I cannot leave your dominions until every
effort to release my parents has failed and left me
completely discouraged."
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