The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: yet I am not yet certain. The crowded UP-steamer sticks in
my throat.
TUESDAY, 12TH SEPT.
Yesterday was perhaps the brightest in the annals of Vailima.
I got leave from Captain Bickford to have the band of the
KATOOMBA come up, and they came, fourteen of 'em, with drum,
fife, cymbals and bugles, blue jackets, white caps, and
smiling faces. The house was all decorated with scented
greenery above and below. We had not only our own nine out-
door workers, but a contract party that we took on in charity
to pay their war-fine; the band besides, as it came up the
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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 A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Most every night when they're in bed.......... 64
Most folks, as I've noticed, in pleasure an'
strife...................................... 176
My father often used to say................... 185
My Pa he eats his breakfast................... 50
Never a sigh for the cares that she bore...... 19
Nobody hates me more than I................... 170
None knows the day that friends must part..... 33
No one is beat till he quits.................. 111
Not for the sake of the gold.................. 93
One day, in ages dim and dark................. 177
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