where I used to watch young trout | on hot days. | Our house was an old rambling place, | half stone, | half brick, with all the tints | that old moss gives to walls that have been left alone | for centuries.

Penmanship.-Write, in large hand, as a specimen of copysetting, the word Geographical.

Write, in small hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, Llewellyn as vassal to the English crown had forfeited his fief.

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FIRST (OR SECOND) YEAR.

Arithmetic.-MALES.- 1. Multiply 33 by 31%, and divide

and find the difference between the sum and difference of these results.

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2. A work consists of three volumes, 150 pages each, every page containing thirty-five lines, each line averaging eleven words, each word four and a half letters. The author is remunerated at the rate of 15d. per letter; what amount does he receive?

3. Express the sum of +18+12, and the difference of 41 and 181 as decimals.

4. What fraction of a guinea, together with o125 of a crown, is equal to £?

5. Express of 15 of a mile in French metres, taking 32 metres as equal to 35 yards.

Answers.—(1) 1. (2)£487 5s. 31d. (3) 2.2384615; 13.72619047. (4) g. (5) 16689 metres.

FEMALES.-1. If a man earn £17 6s. in 102 days, how long will he be in earning 50 guineas?

2. The annual poor's rates on a net rental of £365 7s. 3d. amount to £36 8s. 9d., what should be the net rental of an estate for which the poor's rates amount to £24 5s. 1od. per annum ?

3. A town which is defended by 1,200 men, with provisions enough to sustain them 42 days, supposing each man to receive 18 oz. a day, obtains an increase of 200 men to its garrison; what must now be the allowance to each man in order that the provisions may serve the whole garrison for 54 days?

Answers.-(1) 311 days. (2) £243 11s. 6d. (3) 12 oz. Grammar.-1. How may prepositions always be distinguished from adverbs? Give examples of prepositions that are sometimes used as adverbs.

2. Show what rules and concords are violated in the following The boy and girl was going.

This is the boy which I named.

This is the horse whom I brought.

The room, whose ventilation is imperfect, is unhealthy.

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3. Parse all the pronouns, verbs, and adverbs in the following:

5. Find the simple interest and amount of £417 7s. 9d. for 1 year 10 months, at 43 per cent. per annum.

Answers.-(1) £177 12s. 9°72d. (2) £37 8s. (3) 150 per cent. (4) £12 16s. (5) £33 9s. 6337d.; £450 17s. 3327d.

FEMALES.-I. Reduce 2, 1, 1, 1, into equivalent fractions with a common denominator.

2. Simplify + 10% of 12 + 47% of 31

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3. What rate in the pound must be levied to raise £463 16s. in a parish, the rateable value of which is assessed at £6,184? 4. A boy after spending of his money in oranges, finds that of what he has left is is. 9d.; how much money had he at first? Answers.-(1) 38; 327; 3±3; 813. (2) 2013. (3) is. 6d. (4)

5s. 1 d.

Grammar..-1. Point out the conjunctions in the following, assign each to its proper class, and show what sentences each

connects :

"Man may cut and change the earth-mining and quarrying and building till it hardly looks like God's earth, but he cannot change the sea! There it is, just as God made it at first." "Thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me.'

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Show why "her" and "me" in the above are incorrect-i.e., what rule (as to conjunctions) they violate.

3. Give examples of an infinitive phrase being used—(1) As the subject; (2) As the object of a sentence.

Geography.-1. In which of the British Colonies is each of the following industries carried on, viz., the cultivation of corn, sugar, coffee, tea, cotton, rice, opium, felling of timber, and digging for gold? Show, in each case, that the particular colony is suitable for the particular occupation.

2. Give notes of a lesson to a Second Standard on "The Tropics and a Tropical Climate." Illustrate your lesson by some British Colony, and draw a map of it.

3. What is "The Dominion of Canada"? Describe it fully, and say what you know of its history.

History.-1. After the conquest of this country by Saxon tribes, what become of the Ancient Britons?

2. Who was Henry I. ? Give some account of his children. 3. Sketch the character and fate of Richard II.

Penmanship.-(Same as for Candidates.)

Composition.-Write full notes of a lesson on the formation and course of a river.

Euclid.-(All generally understood abbreviations or symbols for words may be used, but not symbols of operations, such as

1. Euc. I. 8.

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