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       ____ 5. The government changes the way it makes money every                   After about three weeks of slow work, I finally printed out a
few years.                                                                    whole sheet of $100 bills. I took out the magnifying glass and studied
       ____ 6. Copiers will be able to copy microprint in just a few          my work. 'No. Oh, Ben, no. Ben, you don't look right,' I said aloud to
years.                                                                        the empty shop. The portrait of Ben Franklin on the front of the bill
                                                                              just didn't look right. To most people, he probably looked like the one
      READING TWO                                                             on the real bill. But I could see that it wasn't a perfect copy. I needed it
      A. EXPANDING THE TOPIC                                                  to be perfect. So, slowly, painfully I started over.
       Before computers and copiers, counterfeiting was not easy. You                A week later, I was printing the last of the bills. I didn't hear
needed a large printing press, the skill to use the press, and the artistic   them come in because of the noise of the press. I just looked up from
skill to copy a bill. Counterfeiting often took a lot of time, planning,      studying the now-perfect portraits of Ben Franklin to see a gun at my
and hard work. But the results were excellent. The counterfeit money          head and hear the Secret Service man say, 'Just like getting caught
looked and felt like the real thing. Today, professional counterfeiters       with your hand in the cookie jar, huh, Mike?'
still make fake money the old way – on printing presses.                             Adapted from M. M. Landress with Bruce Dobler. I Made It
                                                                              Myself (New York: Grosser and Dunlap, 1973).
      Read the story of Michael Landress, who was once a pro-                        (The Secret Service is the government agency that tries to find
fessional counterfeiter. Then answer the questions that follow.               and catch counterfeiters.)
Check your answers with a partner.
                                                                                    1. The title of the story is 'I Made It Myself.' What does 'it' refer
       I MADE IT MYSELF                                                       to?
       It took months of planning, of trying to find the perfect paper, of           2. In the third paragraph, Landress says, 'No. Oh, Ben, no.' Who
mixing and remixing ink to get the right color, of printing and reprinting    is Ben? What was wrong?
to get the right feel, but I did it. I made a perfect copy of a $100 bill.           3. In the fourth paragraph, Landress says, 'I didn't hear them
       During the days, I did regular print jobs at the shop. Then every
                                                                              come in because of the noise of the press.' Who does 'them' refer to?
evening at five o'clock, I sent my workers home, hoping no one would
                                                                                     4. The story ends with 'Just like getting caught with your hand
ask why I stayed late. I pulled out the paper, ink, and other equipment
                                                                              in the cookie jar, hub, Mike?' What do you think 'getting caught with
I hid away the night before and slowly, carefully worked until the sun
                                                                              your hand in the cookie jar' means?
came up. I didn't have time to sleep. I was too nervous to sleep anyway.
As I worked, I worried about the Secret Service men coming to get
                                                                                    B. LINKING READINGS ONE AND TWO
me. In the beginning, as I prepared the paper, I said to myself, 'I'm just
printing little blue and red hair lines on paper. They can't arrest me for          There are two kinds of counterfeiters: casual counterfeiters,
that.' Then as I printed the numbers, I said, 'I'm just printing small        like the fourteen-year-old boy in Scottsdale, Arizona, and
numbers in four corners of a page. They can't arrest me for this.' Finally,   professional counterfeiters like Mike Landress. Based on the
as I got closer and closer to printing something I could be arrested for,     readings, compare the two kinds of counterfeiters. Put checks (V)
I began to wonder, 'Is this really that bad? Who am I hurting? I'm            in the boxes. Explain your answers to your classmates.
making myself a few thousand dollars so I can take my boy and move
to Puerto Rico. I'm just trying to do my best for my family, is that so
wrong?'

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