PARALLELISM

1. Our beagle loves to hunt. When someone opens the back door 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.  These are smells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection.  She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.Firstly It spins clockwise  and then counterclockwise.  These two activities always occur together.  They are sniffing and spinning.  They seem to propel her along.

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

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