EXERCISE 1
Our beagle loves to hunt. When someone opens the back door for her, she barrels down porch steps into the yard and she runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells such assmells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection with sniffing. She spins her tail in quick circles like a clockwise and then like a counterclockwise. Sniffing and spinning always occur together. They seem to propel her along.
EXERCISE 2
The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. , is a source of much useful information, but few people know about it. It is the official publishing house for the federal government. It publishes pampleths 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. Morover there is no charge at all for some of them.
EXERCISE 3
The man who reaped America’s first fortune was John Jacob Astor. He was a German immigrant and made his initial mney trading Indian furs. Because of being lowborn, uneducated Astor never learned to speak English properly, but he carried on his business to the end in an accent. The accent was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.
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