| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: I netted seventy-five per cent.;
Here at this board of jolly neighbours,
I reap the credit of my labours.
These were the days - I will say more -
These were the grand old days of yore!
The builder laboured day and night;
He watched that every brick was right:
The decent men their utmost did;
And the house rose - a pyramid!
These were the days, our provost knows,
When forty streets and crescents rose,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: streets, his nostrils caught the scent spoor of the girl. Out of
a maze of other scent spoors the ape-man picked the familiar
odor of the girl and, a second later, that of Smith-Oldwick.
He had been forced to accomplish it, however, by bending
very low at each street intersection in repeated attention to his
sandal wrappings, bringing his nostrils as close to the pave-
ment as possible.
As he advanced along the street through which the two had
been conducted earlier in the day he noted, as had they, the
change in the type of buildings as he passed from a residence
district into that portion occupied by shops and bazaars. Here
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: since he understood it himself best of all.
It meant nothing to Tarzan, of course, for he could not tell
one language from another, so when he pointed to the word
man which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learned
from D'Arnot that it was pronounced HOMME, and in the
same way he was taught to pronounce ape, SINGE and tree,
ARBRE.
He was a most eager student, and in two more days had
mastered so much French that he could speak little sentences
such as: "That is a tree," "this is grass," "I am hungry," and
the like, but D'Arnot found that it was difficult to teach him
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