XI.-NOTATION. Write in Figures 1. Eight, eighteen, nine, eleven. 5. Nineteen, nine, two, twenty-one. 6. Twelve, twenty-one, thirty-one, thirteen, eleven. 7. Fifteen, fifty-one, eighty-one, eighteen, thirty. 8. Seventy-one, seventeen, nine, ninetynine, forty. 9. Twenty-seven, seventy-two, sixtyeight, eighty-six, twenty. 10. Ninety-seven, seventy-nine, seventy, eighty, eighty-one. 11. Eighty-eight, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and eleven. 12. One hundred and thirteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and twenty. UPON the rocky coast of Corn-wall there stood some years ago a light-house. It was of great use to sailors in guiding them in dark and stormy nights, and saved many a ship from being dashed to pieces on the rocks. The light-house was kept by a man and his little girl, and was so placed upon the rocks, that at low water, you could walk from it to the shore, but at high water no one could get to it, as no ship could ride in safety among the breakers and the rocks. One day the good man had gone on shore, leaving his little girl alone in the light-house, when some bad men, called wreckers, seized him, and kept him from going back to light his lamps, in the hope that some ships might be driven upon the rocks, when they would reap the spoil. They kept him till long after the tide came in. At last they let him go, and he stood upon the shore very sad. The night was very dark and stormy, and the waves lashed in fury around the lighthouse, but the lantern at its top was yet dark. When the little girl saw that her father did not return she was very sad. She looked over the dark and stormy sea, and saw some ships in the distance. She knew that unless the lamps were lighted, the ships would most likely be wrecked. In her distress she knelt down and prayed to God to help her in her trouble. She then walked up into the lantern at the top of the light-house, and tried to light the lamps, but she was far too little to reach them. Down stairs she went, and with great toil took up a table, on which she stood, but still she could not reach the lamps. Looking about for something else to stand on, her eye fell on her mother's large Bible. She took it up, and placed it on the table. She did not like to stand upon the Bible, but nothing else could be found, so she mounted upon the Book, and standing tip-toe on it, she found she could just reach the lamps. In a minute all the lamps were lighted, and their bright rays shot far across the dark and stormy sea, to the joy of the sailors, the surprise of her father, and the shame and grief of the wreckers. At the same time her father cried out, "Who lighted the lamps?" A DOG was sent across a stream to bring two hats that had been left on the other side, while his master and a friend had gone on some distance. The dog went for the hats, and the gen-tle-men saw him try to carry both hats at once, and fail; for the two were too much for him. The wise an-i-mal stood for a little, and took a careful look at the hats. He saw that the one was larger than the other. He put the small one in the larger, took the large one in his teeth by the brim, swam across the stream, and soon laid both hats at his master's feet. Script Exercise. Write the names of twelve objects in school. |