#1:
Our beagle loves to hunt when someone opens the back door for her. She barrels down porch steps into the yard,
runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy.
Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of cats, rabbits, and other
presences too subtle for human detection.
She sniffs, spins her tail in quick circles. It spins clockwise first then counterclockwise. These activities always occur together. They are sniffing and spinning and seem to
propel her along.
#2: The Government Printing Office in
Washington D.C., which is the official publishing house for the federal
government, is a source of much useful information, however, few people know
about it. The GPO publishes pamphlets
and books on a vast number of subjects ranging 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 them are inexpensive
or free at all for some.
#3: A man reaping America’s first
fortune was John Jacob Astor. He was a
lowborn, uneducated German immigrant. He
made his initial money trading Indian furs, 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.
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