61. If a courier performs a journey in 15 days of 9 hours each, in how many days of 7 hours each should he do the same?

62. A grocer bought 25 cwt. 3 qr. 18 lb. of sugar for £64, 8s. 6d. ; how must he sell it per cwt. to gain £8, 17s. 6d. on the whole?

63. If 40 men require £20 worth of bread in 10 days, when the wheat is at 63s. per qr., how long would £90 worth serve 54 men when wheat is at 56s. a qr.?

64. Twenty-four masons build 36 yd. of a garden wall, which is to be 108 yd. long, in 9 days, working 10 hours a day; how many must be employed to finish the wall in 6 days of 9 hours each?

65. What will be the value of 11 yd. of cloth, when 3 pieces, each containing 25 English ells, are sold for £17? 66. If 10 horses consume 7 bush. 2 pk. of oats in 7 days, how much will 28 horses consume in 10 days?

67. What must a field, 13 po. in breadth, be in length in order that its area may be 2 ac.?

68. A grocer gave £50 for 16 cwt. 2 qr. 18 lb. of sugar, and he lost £8 by retailing it; at what rate did he sell it per lb.? 69. Multiply £5, 17s. 6d. by 2758.

70. Divide 178 cwt. 3 qr. 14 lb. by 53.

71. If 15 men can reap a field in 9 days, and when half the work is done, 5 men are obliged to leave, in how many days will the remainder finish it?

72. Tobacco being sold at the rate of 1s. 6d. for 4 oz., how much should I have to give for a cake of tobacco weighing 16 lb. 2 oz.?

73. If 3 parcels of hops, each weighing 2 cwt., are worth £30, 15s., what is the price per cwt.?

74. How many hours a day must 30 men work, during 3 days, to perform as much as 12 men did in 8 days, working 10 hours a day?

75. Add together,,, and, and divide the result by 75.

76. Reduce of guinea to the fraction of a £.

77. A bankrupt's effects amount to of his debts; how much can he pay in the pound?

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78. What number is that from which, if there be taken of, and to the remainder of be added, the sum will be 10?

79. Find, by Practice, the rent of a house for 5 years 73 days, at the rate of £12, 10s. per annum.

80. How many yards of cloth, 3 qr. wide, will line a cloak that is 1 yd. in length, and 31 yd. wide?

81. If a person can travel 490 miles in 14 days, walking 10 hours a day, how far will he travel in 6 days, walking 8 hours a day?

82. If 24 men dig a trench 54 yd. long in 36 days, working 6 hours a day, how many will dig a trench 48 yd. long in 32 days, working 8 hours a day?

83. If 12 men carn 15s. 44d., how many men, at this rate, will earn £1, 5s. 71d.?

84. If 265 women in a factory each earn £17, 19s. 51d. per year, what are the total earnings for a year?

85. Find the value of 9 ac. of land, at 2s. 6d. per sq. yd. 86. How many yards, at 13s. 4d. a yd., can be bought for £100?

87. If 8 months' provisions for 90 sailors cost £1440, what will be the cost of the provisions for 30 sailors for 20 months?

88. If 360 men, in 8 months, consume 140 qr. of wheat, how many quarters will be required for the consumption of 810 men for 3 months?

89. If the charge for digging a trench 30 ft. long, 18 ft. 6 in. wide, and 8 ft. 9 in. deep, be £50, 10s., how much more would it cost to make it 5 ft. longer, and 9 in. deeper?

90. A bankrupt's debts amount to £5856, but his assets are sufficient to pay 18s. 111d. in the £. What will be lost by a creditor to whom one quarter of the bankrupt's debts is owing?

91. If a man rode 107 miles in 3 hours, how long would he take in going 588 miles?

92. If 7500 men eat 180 tons of food in 6 weeks, how many tons will 1884 men eat in 35 weeks?

93. A garrison of 1000 men, which was victualled for 60 days, was reinforced at the end of 18 days, and then the provisions were exhausted in 30 days. How many men were in the reinforcement ?

94. If the carriage of 15 tons 17 cwt. 1 qr. of goods for 257 miles cost £16, 6s. 71d., what weight, at the same rate, will be carried 211 miles for £21, 15s. 6d.?

95. A wall that was to be raised 36 ft. high was raised 9 ft. in 6 days by 16 men; how many more men must be employed to finish it in 4 days?

96. Working 10 hours a day, it takes 15 labourers 18 days to dig 450 yd.; how many men, working two hours a day, would in 8 days finish 480 yd.?

97. An upright stick, 2 ft. 6 in. long, casts a shadow 3 ft. 2 in. long; how high is a tower which, at the same time of the same day, casts a shadow 60 ft. long? (Work by Rule of Three, and prove your result by the 'Method of Unity.')

98. If a job can be finished in 45 days by 35 men, and if the men drop off 7 at a time at the end of every 15 days, how long will it be before the job is finished?

99. If 4 men, or 6 women, or 9 boys, can perform a piece of work in 27 days, in what time can (a) five men and nine women perform it; and (b) five men and eight boys perform it?

100. How many hours a day must 20 men work, to accomplish as much in 5 days as 25 men could do in 4 days if they worked 6 hours a day?

END OF FIRST YEAR-MALES AND FEMALES.

DICTATION

Is always 'A short passage of prose to be selected by the Inspector, read over once, and then slowly dictated.'

PENMANSHIP.

Write in large hand, as a specimen of copy setting, the word:

'Valetudinarian,' 'Reconciliation,' 'Authoritatively,' 'Manufacturers,' 'Indispensable,' 'Irrefragable,' Phraseology,' Impracticable,' 'Glyphography,' 'Symphony,' 'Undistinguishable,' 'Volatilises,' 'Mechanically,' 'Variability,' 'Imperturbability,' 'Typographical,' Etymologically,' 'Idiosyncrasy,' 'Superintendence,' 'Longitudin

ally.'

Write, in small hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, the following sentence:

The faculties are improved by exercise.'

'Cultivate habits of punctuality.'

'Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.'

Accommodate yourself to your company.'

'Punctually fulfil all your obligations.'

Unsepulchred they roamed, and shrieked each wandering ghost.' 'Wickedness carries with itself a torment.'

'Honesty is the best policy.'

'Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs.'

'Pleasure always hunts for novelty.'

'Intrusive forests quit the cultured ground.'

'Catch perchance some flashing glimpse of green.'

'Forgiveness is the noblest revenge.'

'A stouter champion never handled sword.'

'Sir Philip Sydney displayed undaunted courage at Zutphen.'

'Hope springs eternal in the human breast.'

'The spearman heard the bugle sound.'

'The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.'

'America was discovered by Columbus, 1492.'

'Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke.'

COMPOSITION.

Write, from memory, the substance of the passage read by the Inspector, or a short letter.

END OF FIRST YEAR-MALES AND FEMALES.

GRAMMAR.

1. Parse the words in Italics in the following passage, showing their relations :

'While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom, perhaps, not one appears to deserve our notice or excite our sympathy, we should remember that we likewise are lost in the same throng; that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows.'

2. How are adverbs compared? Make a list of irregular comparisons.

3. When is that used instead of who or which? Give examples.

4. Parse the words in Italics in the following passage, and show their relations :

'It is remarkable that those whom the world least accuses, accuse themselves the most; and that a foolish speech, which at the time of its utterance was unobserved as such by all who heard it, shall yet remain fixed in the memory of him who pronounced it, with a tenacity which he vainly seeks to communicate to more agreeable subjects of reflection.'

5. Give examples showing how some words can be used both as prepositions and as adverbs.

6. Explain the force of self and ever in compound pronouns.

7. Parse the words in Italics in the following passage, and show their relations: