| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: The Nurse and the Wolf The One-Eyed Doe
The Tortoise and the Birds Belling the Cat
The Two Crabs The Hare and the Tortoise
The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Old Man and Death
The Two Fellows and the Bear The Hare With Many Friends
The Two Pots The Lion in Love
The Four Oxen and the Lion The Bundle of Sticks
The Fisher and the Little Fish The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts
Avaricious and Envious The Ass's Brains
The Crow and the Pitcher The Eagle and the Arrow
The Man and the Satyr The Milkmaid and Her Pail
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: at no other time did this busy man suffer his work to interfere
with that first duty to his children; and there is a pleasant tale
of the inventive Master Frewen, engaged at the time upon a toy
crane, bringing to the study where his father sat at work a half-
wound reel that formed some part of his design, and observing,
'Papa, you might finiss windin' this for me; I am so very busy to-
day.'
I put together here a few brief extracts from Fleeming's letters,
none very important in itself, but all together building up a
pleasant picture of the father with his sons.
'JAN. 15TH, 1875. - Frewen contemplates suspending soap bubbles by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: Gesner says, Carps have no tongue like other fish, but a piece of
fleshlike fish in their mouth like to a tongue, and should be called a
palate: but it is certain it is choicely good, and that the Carp is to be
reckoned amongst those leather-mouthed fish which, I told you, have
their teeth in their throat; and for that reason he is very seldom lost by
breaking his hold, if your hook be once stuck into his chaps.
I told you that Sir Francis Bacon thinks that the Carp lives but ten years:
but Janus Dubravius has writ a book Of fish and fish-ponds in which he
says, that Carps begin to spawn at the age of three years, and continue
to do so till thirty: he says also, that in the time of their breeding, which
is in summer, when the sun hath warmed both the earth and water, and
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