Paralellism

1. Our beagle loves to hunt. Someone opens the 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. These are smells of cats, rabbits, and other presences too subtle for human detection. She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles. It spins clockwise first, then it spins counterclockwise. These tho activities always occur together, they are sniffing and spinning. They seem to propel her along.

2. The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information. Few people know about it, but it is the official publishing house for the federal government. The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects. These range 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 them are inexpensive and there is no charge at all for some of them.

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