Exercise 2: A good book is one of our best friends. It is the same today that it always was and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, comforting and consoling us in age.

Title:- Usefulness of books.

Precis:- A good book is a patient, never-changing and cheerful friend helping us in sorrow, in youth and comforting and consoling us in old age.