Exercises on paralelism

As our beagle loves to hunt, someone  opens the back door for her. Though she is so sweet, some people are afraid of her. She barrels down porch steps into the yard, and runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass. These are smells of cats, of rabbits, but other presences too subtle for human detection. After she sniffs, she spins her tail in quick circles. It spins clockwise first, then counterclockwise. These two activities that are sniffing and spinning seem to propel her along.

The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information. However, few people know about it. It is the official publishing house fort he federal government. The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects. These subjects range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms. About 27,000 publications that many of them are inexpensive are offered through the Superintendent of Documents. There is no charge at all for some.

A man who was John Jacob Astor, and a German immigrant. Although Astorn was lowborn, uneducated, and never learned to speak English properly, he made his initial Money trading Indian furs. He carried on his business to the end in an Accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters