(2.) There are fifty-four labourers in a parish, and they earn, on an average, each 8s. 8d. a week. How much will be required to pay their whole weekly wages?

(3.) A waggon and team and nineteen bullocks were bought at a sale for £306 12s. Reckoning the four horses at £33 12s. 6d. each, and the bullocks at eight guineas each, what was the cost of the waggon?

(4.) A mercer bought a dozen dozen pair of gloves at 2s. 21d. a pair. What did the whole parcel cost him? and what did he gain by selling them at 3s. 6d. a pair?

(5.) A tradesman became insolvent. His debts amounted to £87, and his goods, when sold, were sufficient to pay 7s. 8d. in the £. What was their whole value?

(6.) An ox was killed weighing fifty-nine stone. Twentythree stone being sold at 3s. 7d. a stone, and the rest at 3s. 2 d., what did it sell for altogether?

(7.) A farmer's wife carried to market in one year fiftyseven fowls and twenty-nine ducks. The fowls she sold at 1s. 9d. each, and the ducks at 2s. 3d. ; and she had besides 1237 eggs, which she sold, on the average, for three farthings each. What did she make by her poultry, allowing for their cost in fattening £6 11s. 6d. ?

(8.) The Jewish shekel was worth 2s. 31d. What was the value of a talent, which contained three thousand shekels? What was the value of ten thousand talents?

(9.) What sum must be divided among twenty-three men, so that each may receive £11 11s. 111d.?

(10.) A farmer sold at a fair one hundred and nineteen sheep, at £1 13s. 7d. each, and bought nineteen oxen at ten guineas each. How much money did he carry home?

(11.) What is the price of eight packs of cloth, each pack containing eight parcels, each parcel eight pieces, and each piece fifty yards, at 33d. a yard ?

(12.) A gentleman's gross income is £457 per annum. But his outgoings in rates and taxes, &c. amount to 5s. 101d. in the £. What is his net income?

(1.) Five persons on a journey spend £7 98. 52d. What was each person's share of the expenses?

(2.) A master paid in wages, at the week's end, £1 13s. 6d. There were two men, who had worked six days each, and three boys, who were paid each half-a-crown. What were the daily wages of each man?

(3.) Seven men bought a cheese between them, which cost £1 78. 8d. They divided it equally; what had each to pay? (4.) A farmer buys fourteen sheep at 31s. 4d. each. Three of them having died, at what price did he sell the rest, so as to gain 38s. by the bargain?

(5.) I had in my purse £3 18s. 9d., and the gold in it was worth eight times as much as the silver. What were the separate amounts of gold and silver?

(6.) A grocer mixed seven pounds of tea at 3s. 10d. with five pounds at 4s. 4d., and sold the whole at 4s. 2d. a pound. How much did he gain by the transaction? and at what price should he have sold the mixture, so as to have dealt fairly?

(7.) Dívide £10 among five persons, so that one may have 10s. more than each of the others.

(8.) I bought nine fowls for £1 0s. 7d. What was the price of one fowl?

(9.) A servant had saved in seven years £44 5s. 91d. What had she saved in each year on the average?

(10.) A father left £500 at his death, to be divided among his seven children; but his eldest son was to receive twice as much as any of the rest. What did he receive? and what did the youngest?

(11.) A gentleman distributed £1 13s. 9d. among three poor labourers and their wives, giving to each man twice as much as to each woman. What did he give to each?

(12.) The expenses of a party of nine were 3s. 91d. each; but two sneaked off without paying their shares. What must the others each pay in addition to discharge the bill?

(1.) If seventy-five oxen can be bought for £1647 8s. 51d., what is the price of one?

(2.) Divide £1901 2s. 2d. into ninety-nine equal portions. (3.) How may a sum of £12 11s. 63d. be distributed among five men and six women, so as to give each man thrice the share of each woman?

(4.) A mixture is made of nine gallons of spirits at 12s. 6d. per gallon, six gallons at 18s 9d. and fifteen gallons at 22s. 8d. What is the proper price of a gallon of it?

(5.) If I buy forty-five sheep for £81 10s. 4d., and sell seven of them at 34s. 10d. each, at what price must I sell the rest so as to gain £10 by the bargain?

(6.) Forty-three persons embark between them £250 16s. 1d. in a speculation, which yields altogether £15006 5s. 113d. What is the share of profit for each person, after allowing for his original outlay?

(7.) A gentleman left to twenty-seven poor people in a parish the sum of £1 1s. 1d. each. But four had died, and the whole was divided equally among the rest. What did each

receive?

(8.) A farmer rents of one landlord fifty-seven acres at 278. an acre, of another twenty-two acres at 33s. 6d. an acre, and of a third twenty-nine acres at 50s. an acre. What rent does he pay per acre on the average?

(9.) In a certain savings bank, seventeen persons out of one village deposited in one year the sum of £53 16s. 33d. What was the deposit of each on the average?

(10.) Aman buys thirty-five bushels of potatoes for £47s. 1d. He sells ten bushels of them at 3s. 2d. each; but finds that six bushels of the remainder are diseased and good for nothing. At what price per bushel must he sell the rest, so as not to lose anything upon the whole by the bargain?

(11.) The yearly expense of a village school was £30. There was an endowment in land to the amount of £8 38. 5d. The clergyman gave £10, and the landlords and farmers between them seven guineas. The rest was made up by the school-pence of the children, of whom there were forty-three attending the school. What did each of them pay yearly on

the average?

(12.) Divide £10 10s. 10d. among three men, four women, and six children, so that each man may receive thrice as much as each child, and each woman twice as much.

(1.) A and B went to the gold-diggings. A brought back gold to the value of £166 13s. 4d. and B brought back half as much again. What value of gold did they bring back between them?

(2.) A man died without a will, leaving property to the amount of £299 19s. 4 d. His widow became entitled to one third of this, and the rest was equally divided among his five children. What did the widow and each child receive?

(3.) Out of a sum of £4 7s. 6d. one-third is paid to A, and one-seventh to B. After this, three-elevenths of the remainder are paid to A, and the rest to B. What sums are now in the possession of A and B? ̧

(4.) A person dies worth £1000, and leaves a third of his property to his wife, half to his son, and the rest to his daughter. The wife at her death leaves two-fifths of the legacy to her son, and the rest to her daughter. How much do they each now possess?

(5.) What must I give for three-quarters of a cheese, if the whole was worth £1 2s. 7d.? and what for three and a half such cheeses?

(6.) A farmer sold eleven coom and a half of barley at 15s. 2d. a coom, and bought seven sheep with the money. What did he give for each sheep?

(7.) A grocer bought twelve dozen pounds of tea at 3s. 6d.