Parallelism

*Our beagle loves to hunt. Someone opens the back door for her and she barrels down porch steps into the yard. She runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of cats, rabbits and other presences that are too subtle for humanbeings to detect. She sniffs ans spins her tail in quick circles. It spins clockwise first, then counterclockwise. These two activities always occur together. They are sniffing and spinning, and seem to propel her along.

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

*A man reaped America's first fortune. He was John Jacob Astor, who was a German immigrant and made his initial money trading Indian furs. He was lowborn, uneducated and never learned to speak English properly. He carried on his business to the end in an accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.