homework

#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 such as, smells of cats, rabbit , and other presences too subtle for human detection. She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles. After spinning clockwise , it spins counterclockwise. These two activities always occur. They are sniffing and spinning and seem to propel her along.

Although the Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information, few people know about it. It is the official publishing house for the federal government. The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on 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.

#2:John Jacob Astor,who reaped America’s first fortune, was a German immigrant. A man, lowborn and uneducated made his initial money by trading Indian furs. Therefore, 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.