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it as before it. "We continue friends," is in sense exactly equivalent to "we are friends still,"—and here, as in all cases, the sense is the best guide to the grammatical connexion.

GEOGRAPHY.-(1.) Draw a map of the coast from the mouth of the Wiltshire Avon to the mouth of the Bristol Avon. Unattempted.

(2.) Describe the courses of the Great Ouse, the Eden, the Forth, and their tributaries. Unattempted.

(3.) Name the harbours and commercial towns of Ireland and Wales: describe the situation of each, and the nature of its trade.

Answers.-Harbour of Ireland and Wales, Belfast, Cork, Cardiff, Newport, Swansea. Towns of commerce, Dublin.

This geography is very much on a par with the grammar, and would draw down a second "warning." Some attempt at map drawing is always expected, and the most satisfactory way of answering even the second question would be to accompany the verbal description with a plan of the river's course, basin, and tributaries.

N.B.-The answer which is given loses more than one half of any value which it may possess by being applicable to only one half of the question.

COMPOSITION.-Write a letter showing how you spent the Christmas vacation.

My dear

-St London Dec-74

We have had a very Merry Christmas, and enjoyed ourselves very much.

On Monday we had a school Treat, there were about 100 children present. There was a nice Xmas

tree, and all the children had a useful present given them as they went away. We went to a pary last night, and after a good tea we had dancing in a room hired for the occasion. At twelve o'clock we we had a good game of blindman's buff and other games, and then we all went home quite satisfied with our evening's enjoyments. I cannot tell you all our Xmas enjoyments, it would take so long. I hope you have enjoyed yourself this Xmas. Write as soon as possible and tell us how you are getting on.

I remain my dear

Yours very truly

fair

This is a very respectable letter, and being nicely written as well as correctly spelt, and fairly expressed, would be accepted as a set off against the grammar and geography; and, taken in connection with very arithmetic, tolerable reading, and some promise of teaching power, would probably secure a "pass," though accompanied with a double "warning."

Probable marks, (maximum, without reading and teaching marks, being as before, 100; and the minimum for a pass, 60). Handwriting, 17; composition, 17; grammar, 6; arithmetic, 15; geography, 6. Total, 61.

Second Year Pupil Teacher's Paper, February, 1876.

ARITHMETIC.-(1.) If 21 oz. of tea cost 1 shillings, what part of a pound of tea may be had for 2 shillings?

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(2.) What sum of money multiplied by 8 and divided by 5 gives £6.96? Give answer in decimals and vulgar fractions, and £ s. D. (Unattempted.)

(3.) If of a yd. of silk cost 41s., how much of it should be in a gown which, with 23 s. for making, cost £10,, 19,, 2?

Answer,

£

£

91 320

Cost of gown=10,, 19, 21, but 23% sh., or 23,, 4 is for making. Cost of silk in gown=9,, 5,,8 or 99 et cetera. (4.) A has 2'95 tons of a certain material, and B. 17.09375 cwts. of it. If its price be £1 per quarter, how much more could A sell his stock for than B.?

Answer,

A. has 2'95 t., or 2 t. 19 cwt., and B. has 17.09375

cwt.

A.'s share is 2 t.

share 17 cwt. of qrs.

19 cwt., or 236 qrs., and B.'s

.. A.'s share is more than B.'s by 8ğ qrs.

OBSERVATIONS.

The first sum is not badly done, though it would perhaps have been better, especially for a junior P. Teacher, to draw out the second step more fully; e.g.,

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and marks would have been gained had the sum been proved by the rule of three, of which it readily admits, or by some other independent method, thus;

As I s. 2's. :: 21 oz.: x.

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The third exercise is a breakdown through mere carelessness; and if the P. T. took home a copy of his work, I have no doubt he got a scolding, which he well deserved, from his instructor. The fourth, on the other hand, is so effectually muddled, that it is difficult to discover where he first went wrong. In the former he began quite correctly by subtracting the price of

B

making from the total cost of the gown. the "difference" right, he should then the terms in this way:

41s. or 18s. is the price of yds.

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This sum again should have been proved by the rule of three.

GRAMMAR.-(1) What letters in our alphabet are superfluous? (Unattempted.)

(2) Give instances of adverbs derived from adjectives and adjectives derived from nouns ?

A great many of the adverbs in the English language are derived from adjectives, as-greatly, slowly, swiftly, and nearly all the adverbs ending in ly; as he was greatly vexed, they are gone but slowly, he went very swiftly. Adjectives derived from nouns are called abstract, as goodness, whiteness.

No

Parsing

adverb modifying more.

Knight noun common, sing. neut., nom. to "fought," adverb qualifying "goodly."

more

goodly adjective qualifying "Knight."

than

the

King

conjunction.

definite article, pointing out "King."
noun com., sing..neut., in opposition with
Knight," and nom. to “fought."

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himself compound personal pronoun, masc., nom. to

"fought."

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