| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: He tells me how God makes the trees,
And why it hurts to pick up bees.
Sometimes he stops and shows to me
The place where fairies used to be;
And then he tells me stories, too,
And I am sorry when he's through.
When I am asking him for more
He says: "Why there's a candy store!
Let's us go there and see if they
Have got the kind we like to-day."
Then when we get back home my ma
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: but a vast dish of beef more than fifty ancient yeomen could eat,
and whirled it like a coit, in terrorem, over the head of the friar,
to the extremity of the apartment,
Where it on oaken floor did settle,
With mighty din of ponderous metal.
"Nay father," said Matilda, taking the baron's hand, "do not harm the friar:
he means not to offend you. My gaiety never before displeased you.
Least of all should it do so now, when I have need of all my spirits
to outweigh the severity of my fortune."
As she spoke the last words, tears started into her eyes, which, as if
ashamed of the involuntary betraying of her feelings, she turned away
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