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and I'm going to start a trap this week. Just let me know when you are
going to set up, and I'll manage to run down, old man, and give you a
start in business, if I have to stand on my head in the water-butt.
Good-bye. Love from the Missus.
Ever yours,

THOMAS WATERHOUSE CRABBE,

81 George Street, M. B., Edin. "
Brisport.

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Assignments

1. Skimming: Skim the reading to gain a general idea of its form, length,
and content. Give the gist of the story.

2. Scanning:
2.1. Put the following events in the chronological order.
1. Tom sent the strongest current of a most powerful battery rattling
and crashing through the writer’s system.
2. The writer could not stay in Brisport long enough to see the effects
of his coup d’etat.
3. With a melodramatic scream the writer reeled and fell over into the
brisport dock.
4. Crabbe published an erudite paper in a medical journal.
5. The inspector of police was followed by the twelve respectable
citizens.
6. The writer received a telegram from Mrs. Crabbe begging to run
down to Brisport.
7. Crabbe altered very much for the worse.
8. The friends made up a plan how to found Crabbe’s practice.
9. Crabbe took his degree and settled down in Brisport.
10. The article was devoted to Dr Crabbe and the extraordinary effects
of electricity upon a drowned man.

3.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
1. bold 31. brim 61. swing 91. issue
2. earnestness 32. notoriety 62. hail 92. persevere