PARALLELISM ACTIVITY

#1:  Our beagle loves to hunt.  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 that are smells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection.  She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.  It spins clockwise first and then counterclockwise.  These two activities that are sniffing and spinning seem to propel her along and always occur together.

#2: The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., which is a source of much useful information that few people know about.  It is the official publishing house for the federal government.  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 are offered through the Superintendent of Documents.  Many of them are inexpensive and some of them are free at all.

#3: A man who was German immigrant John Jacob reaped America’s first fortune.  He 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.