PARALLELISM

PARALLELISM

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

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

3)A man reaped America’s first fortune was John Jacob Astor.  He was a German immigrant who 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.