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ARITHMETIC-Continued.

(4) If 1 yards of cloth cost 15s. 6d., what will 32yds. 3qrs. cost at the same rate?

(5) If 32 yards of cloth cost £24 16s., what is the value of lyd. 2qrs. 2nls.?

(6) If I give £4 18s. for 3cwt. of sugar, at what rate did I buy it per dozen lbs. ?

(7) If I buy 20 pieces of cloth, each 20yds., for £12 per ell, what is the value of 14 yds.?

(8) What will 25cwt. 3qrs. 14lbs. of tobacco come to at 15/6 for 2lbs. ?

Lesson 24.-Thursday.-Grammar. Learn and Write.

Ex. 9. Make six sentences with

(1) A noun

(2) A pronoun

(3) An adjective

(4) An infinitive

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Ex. 10. Fill up the blanks with proper subjects and predicates.--Tennyson is

brightly.

Tom has been

......

eat grass.

Water is

Ex. 11. Parse. These hundred years speed and certainty.

Lesson 25.-Friday Morning.

The ice

The Thames

The

....

burns

will come to their end with

Work these Sums.

(1) If 17cwt. 1qr. 14lbs. of iron cost £26 7s. 04d., how much will one ton cost?

(2) If a gentleman's income is £500 a year, and he spends 19s. 4d. in 2 days, how much does he lay buy at the year's end?

(3) If I lend a person £400 for 7 months, how much ought he to lend me for 12 months?

(4) If 136 masons can build a fort in 28 days, how many men would finish it in 8 days?

History. Write and Learn.

THE REFORMATION.-Continued.

1534 On Thomas Cromwell and Archbishop Cranmer becoming the King's chief advisers, they favoured his divorce.

Henry therefore withdrew his allegiance to the Pope, declared himself "the only supreme head on earth of the Church in England."

1535 Miles Coverdale, by Henry's order, translated the Bible, and a copy was ordered to be placed in every Parish Church.

1536 Thomas Cromwell was appointed Vicar-General to suppress the monasteries or religious houses. The Reformation spread in Edward VI.'s reign, and the Book of Common Prayer was drawn up.

Queen Mary endeavoured to 'suppress the new doctrines, but in
Elizabeth's reign the Reformation was completed:

SIXTH WEEK.

Lesson 26.-Learn for Monday Morning.

MOTIVES.

It is the motive that, more than anything else, renders an action good or bad. However fair the look of an action may be, if the right motive is wanting the action is hollow; if the motive be a bad one, the action is rotten at the core. Who

MOTIVES.-Continued.

cares for an outward seeming or show of friendship or affection, unless the heart be also friendly and affectionate? Who does not prize a rough outside, when it covers an honest inside, more than the most fawning fondness from a heart that is cold and false? Thus it is right to insist on the principles for their own sake, because the principles give their value to the action, not the action to the principles. The principles are the gold on which the stamp has to be put: if the gold be not good, the stamp, though it may often deceive people, gives it no real worth; and he who graves the king's image on base metal is punished for forgery.--Rev. Augustus Hare.

OR ELSE LEARN Psalm xxii., verses 22-31.

Lesson 27.-Tuesday. Geography. Write and Learn. RIVERS. Scotland contains numerous rivers. The principal ones rise either in the Grampians or the Lowthers. Like those of England, all the chief rivers but one empty themselves into the North Sea. All the rivers have swift currents, and many of them are encumbered with waterfalls.

The rivers rising in the Grampians are the Find'-horn and Spey, running north, and the Don, Dee, Tay, and Forth, running east.

The Tay (105 miles) is the longest and largest river of Scotland. It receives a great many tributaries and drains many lakes.

The Forth rises in Ben Lomond, and with its tributaries also drains several lakes. It opens into a large estuary called the Frith of Forth, above 50 miles long and about 40 miles across in its widest part.

The Spey is noted for its great swiftness.

Lesson 28.-Wednesday Morning. Work these Sums. (1) How long will a person be saving £3, if he puts by 1s. 6d. per week? (2) There are provisions in a town sufficient to support 4,000 soldiers for 3 months: how many soldiers must be sent away in order to make these provisions last for 8 months?

(3) How many yards of cloth 3 quarters wide are equal in measure to 30 yards 5 quarters wide?

(4) If I lend my friend £260 for 13 months, how long ought he to lend me £156 to requite my kindness?

(5) If for 24s. I have 1,200lbs. carried 36 miles, how many pounds can I have carried 24 miles for the same money?

(6) If tea be bought at 28. 14d. and sold at 2/6 per lb., how many lbs. must be sold to gain £5?

(7) A man walks 60 yards in 30 seconds: how far can he go in half-anhour?

(8) 3,050 soldiers have provisions for 9 months: how long would the same provisions last 2,000 men?

Lesson 29.-Thursday.-Grammar. Learn and Write. THE OBJECT.

Some PREDICATES do not make complete sense.

GRAMMAR-Continued.

The predicates that do not make complete sense by themselves

are ACTIVE TRANSITIVE VERBS.

The cat caught.

Here we must know what the cat caught before the sense is complete; we must add something, and may say—

The cat caught the mouse; or,

The cat caught it.

Here mouse or it completes the sense of the verb caught; they are the objects upon which the action is completed, henceThe completion of the predicate is the object of a transitive verb.

An object is the name of something, therefore—

The object may be a noun, or any word or words used as a noun.

Hence the object, like the subject, may be either-(1) a noun; (2) a pronoun; (3) an adjective; (4) an infinitive; (5) a participle. Ex. 12. Pick out the objects and state their kind.-The law forbids stealing. He began to cry. I have learnt French. They forgot me. The people call him a hero. The boys love skating. We honour the brave. Ex. 13. Parse.-The gates once opened, our men poured into the town like a flood.

Lesson 30-Friday Morning.

Work these Sums. (1) Four cub. ft. of water weigh 250lbs.: what weight of water is there in a cistern which contains 124 cub. feet?

(2) Bought 65 sheep for £80 10s., and sold them for £72 12s., what was lost on each one?

(3) How many quarters of barley @ 29/- per quarter must be given for 50 quarters 4bus. 3pks. of wheat at 66/6 per quarter?

(4) Find the cost of 5 cheeses, each weighing two stone, at 2/10 for four lbs. ?

History.-Write and Learn.

A.D.

EDWARD VI.

1547 Edward VI., only son of Henry VIII., by his third wife, Jane Seymour, was only nine years old when he began to reign. He reigned from 1547 to 1553.

War with Scotland, caused by the refusal of the Scots to marry their
young Queen Mary to Edward.

Battle of Pinkie, in which the Scots were defeated, after which
Queen Mary was taken to France.

1549 Insurrections in West of England, caused by changes in religion. 1550 Peace concluded with France and Scotland. Two years after, Somerset, who was Regent during the King's minority, was beheaded for treason. Duke of Northumberland made protector in his place, and he induced the King to settle the crown on Lady Jane Grey. Edward was very learned, pious, and attentive to the affairs of state.

SEVENTH WEEK.

Lesson 31.-Learn for Monday Morning.

A GOOD NAME.

Who shall pretend to calculate the value of a good name? Its benefit is often great when dependent on other ties than

A GOOD NAME-Continued.

those which accident or relationship have created; but when it flows from friendships which have been consecrated by piety and learning-when it is the willing offspring of kindred minds to departed worth or genius-it takes a higher character, and is not less honourable to those who receive than to those who confer it. It comes generally from the best sources, and is directed to the best ends. Nor is this all. The consciousness of the source from which it springs is wont to stimulate those who are the objects of it; and many persons have laid the foundation of the very highest fortunes upon no other ground than that which the goodly inheritance has supplied.-Bishop Otter.

OR ELSE LEARN Psalm xl., verses 1-10.

Lesson 32.-Tuesday.-Geography. Write and Learn. The rivers rising in the Lowthers are the Clyde, running to the west, the Tweed, running to the east, and the Nith, running to the south.

The Clyde rises near Queensbury Hill in the Lowthers, and after a very winding course of 100 miles, empties itself into the Frith of Clyde. It receives few tributaries of importance. The first successful steam vessel in Europe was built and tried on the Clyde (1812).

The Tweed rises about 10 miles from the Clyde, and first flows northward and then eastward, emptying itself into the North Sea. It drains the greater part of the eastern Lowlands, and has valuable salmon fisheries, as have several other Scottish rivers. The remaining rivers of Scotland are generally unimportant. On the west they chiefly serve to drain the lakes, and on the east they are short rapid streams from the mountains.

Lesson 33.-Wednesday Morning. Work these Sums.

(1) How much may a person spend in 21 weeks, if he wishes to lay by £15 out of an income of £150?

(2) If 14yds. 2qrs. of broad cloth cost £9 12s. 6d., what is the value of 75yds. 1qr. lnl. ?

(3) How much linen may be bought for £41, if 465 yards cost £69 78. 6d. ? (4) If 14 pioneers make a trench in 18 days, how many days will 34 men take to do the same (10hrs a working day)?

(5) Borrowed of my friend £64 for 8 months, and he borrowed a sum of me for 12 months: how much must I lend him?

(6) Bought 59cwt. 2qrs. 21lbs. of tobacco at £2 17s. 4d. per cwt.: what does it come to?

(7) A piece of velvet contained 147 yards at 14/6 per yard. The mercer who bought it cut it up into pieces of yd, each, for trimming cloaks : what should be the price of each piece so as to gain £16 108. 9d. by the whole?

(8) What is the length of a pole casting a shadow of 48ft. 3in., if the shadow of one 10ft. high be 9ft. 2in.?

Lesson 34.-Thursday.-Grammar. Learn and Write. ENLARGEMENT OF THE SUBJECT.

The SUBJECT may be enlarged or expanded; it may have some. thing ADDED TO IT to mark or point it out more particularly. A word that marks or points out a noun is an adjective; hence

The subject may be enlarged by an adjective, or any word used as an adjective.

The word or words used to enlarge the subject are called attributes.

The subject may be enlarged by--(1) An adjective

The old man died.

(2) A noun in apposition

William the Conqueror came from Normandy. (3) A noun or pronoun in the possessive case

The boy's kite was lost.

Our kite was lost.

(4) A prepositional phrase—

The Tower of London

very old.

(5) A participial phrase

The boy, being angry, threw a stone.

Ex. 14. Underline the attribute and state the kind.-Becket, the archbishop, was murdered. The pupil's task is done. His pen is broken. The bridge, rotten and old, fell into the stream. The girl's hat is lost. Paul, the apostle, preached at Athens. A boy, careless in his work, will make little progress.

Ex. 15. Fill in the blanks suitably. The
The......sun rose brightly.

.book is lost.

hid by the clouds. David,

wrote "Paradise Lost."

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child was killed. The top..........was was king of Israel. Milton,

Ex. 16. Parse. An excellent vein of satire runs through the whole of "Gulliver's Travels.'

Lesson 35.-Friday Morning. Work these Sums.

(1) If a man walk 62 miles in 3 days, how many days will he be in walking 80 miles?

(2) If 311b, of tea cost 10s. 63d., how much will 74lb. cost?

(3) Find the price of 2 tons 3cwt. 14lb. @ 8/9 per quarter.

(4) A bankrupt pays 12s. 8d. in the pound, and his assets amount to £500 find the amount of his debts.

History.-Write and Learn.

A.D.

MARY.

1553 Mary, sister of Edward VI., and daughter of Henry VIII., reigned from 1553 to 1558.

Mary

Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen, but the people supported Mary, and Lady Jane Grey and her husband were committed to the Tower for treason. They were beheaded next year. re-established the Roman Catholic religion in England. 1555 Persecution for religious opinions commenced. First martyr was Rogers, of St. Paul's. Next followed Bishops Hooper, Latimer, and Ridley; and the year after Archbishop Cranmer was burned a the stake.

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