The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: Rockingham. We finally selected an upright slice of topography covered
with bushes and trees that you could only reach by a secret path that
we cut out up the side of it. And the only way to reach the mountain
was to follow up the bend of a branch that wound among the elevations.
Then I took in hand an important subdivision of the proceedings. I
went up to Atlanta on the train and laid in a two-hundred-and-fifty-
dollar supply of the most gratifying and efficient lines of grub that
money could buy. I always was an admirer of viands in their more
palliative and revised stages. Hog and hominy are not only inartistic
to my stomach, but they give indigestion to my moral sentiments. And I
thought of Colonel Jackson T. Rockingham, president of the Sunrise &
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: and where he is to be found. This only I entreat of you, and so
remain behind with a heavy heart.
"Yours to command in all else, and I would to Heaven, in this also,
"AMYAS LEIGH."
I am sorry to have to say, that after having thus obeyed his
mother, Master Amyas, as men are too apt to do, revenged himself on
her by being more and more cross and disagreeable. But his temper
amended much, when, a few months after, Drake returned triumphant,
having destroyed a hundred sail in Cadiz alone, taken three great
galleons with immense wealth on board, burnt the small craft all
along the shore, and offered battle to Santa Cruz at the mouth of
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