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ubject? What is Ma's reply? How does Mary yield? What is Ma's remark?

Les. 10. Which sister appears most forward in the dialogue, Mary or Jane? Why? Which the most patient and sensible? Why? Which appears to have been the oldest? Why? What appears to have been the mother's object? Why? Proper, or improper? Why? How did Mary betray her impatience and weakness? Did Ma chide, or help the girl from her embarrassment? Did she do right or wrong? Why? Les. 14. Who opens the discourse? How? Who replies, and what? What Ma's remark? Jane's description of the process? Who interrupts, and how? Ma's observation? Jane's description? Who helps out with the story? How does Ma explain?

Les. 18. What the uses of flour?

How is starch made? How hair powder? How wafers? What is isinglass.

ARITHMETICAL EXERCISES.

Les. 3. What is the first step in stating a question for Compound Multiplication? What the second? What the third! What the fourth.

Les. 19. What is the second rule in the Multiplication of compound terms? What the third? Which is the easiest, Addition, Subtraction or Multiplication of compound terms? Why?

NOTE. All recitations in arithmetic should be performed on a black board, at which time questions and explanations by the teacher, and answers and illustrations by the pupil should be constantly exchanged.

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GRAMMATICAL EXERCISES.

Les. 4. What is the meaning and use of government in gramınar? How illustrated? What is requisite in parsing? Why? In parsing a noun, what is said? In parsing a verb, what? In parsing an adjective, what? In parsing the articles, what? The active participle, what? The preposition, what? The adverb, what?

.Les. 12. What is a pronoun and its object? How illustrated? What their properties, &c.? How divided?

Les. 16. How many and what personal pronouns? What of solemn and poetic styles? What the persons of pronouns? How distinguished? What of the verb with the pronoun?

Les. 20. How are the personal pronouns, singular, declined? How the personal pronouns plural? What of the note?

CHAPTER 20.

SPELLING.LESSON 1.

Words of two Syllables in double columns; the first exhibits the spelling, and the second the pronunciation. Accent on the first syllable, with the short sound of the vowels, in alphabetical

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Dialogue carried on by Jane, Mary and their Mother.

Spermaceti.

Mary. Oh! Ma', what dirty things! the intestines of fish! I shall never like jelly again'.

Ma. My child', make no rash resolves', lest you find yourself unable to keep them'. There are many things besides isinglass that are drawn from substances not less pleasant than the sounds of fish'. What do you think of the spermaciti which you ate so eagerly last winter to ease your cough?

Mary. Mixed with sugar candy, Ma', it was quite good'; besides, it was white and perfectly clean`.

Jane. And yet I fancy', sister', you would turn up your nose a little at the idea of eating the brains of a whale'.

Mary. To be sure I should': Why do you laugh, Jane'? Jane. Because I have read in some book that the spermaciti is made of the brains of that fish'.

Ma. You are right, Jane'; and the Laplanders think it hard if each man of them cannot get a pint or two of it to drink every day! It has been found that human flesh', exposed for some time to running water', turns to a substance similar to that of spermaceti.

Mary. Oh! Mamma', what dirty stuff! who could think of drinking a pint of the brains of a whale'! How shocking!

Ma. Spermaceti has other uses besides those of a medicinal nature'; it is used in lamps', and made into candles`; these are thought next best to war candles'. Spermaceti has become an article of immense trade'; the whole fortunes of some men lies in that commodity`.

MULTIPLICATION OF COMPOUND TERMS.-LESSON 3. RULE 4. When the multiplier consists of several figures: 1. Multiply the given sum by 10, and that product by 10, and so on as many times, less one, as there are figures in the multiplier.

2. Multiply the last product by the left hand figure of the multiplier.

3. Multiply the given sum by the figure in the unit's place in the multiplier.

4. Multiply the product of the first 10, by the figure in the ten's place in the multiplier.

5. Multiply the product of the second 10 by the figure in the hundred's place in the multiplier, and so on, through all the places in the multiplier, except the left hand figure.

6. Add all the products and their sum will be the answer. (1) Multiply £5 18 3 by 325

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GRAMMAR.LESSON 4.

Of the Adjective Pronoun."

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Adjective pronouns are said to be of a mixed nature, and to perform the offices of both the pronoun and adjective. They are divided into several kinds: to wit:

1. The demonstrative adjective pronoun.
2. The indefinite adjective pronoun.
3. The possessive adjective pronoun.
4. The distributive adjective pronoun.

1. The Possessive adjective pronoun, is that which implies possession and refers to some noun expressed or understood. Of this kind there are six; namely: my, your, his, her, our, their, as: my hat; your book; his gun; her pen; our city; their

seats.

OBS. In solemn and poetic styles, mine, thine and thy, are used, and this is the style adopted by the Friends' society. In common discourse it appears very stiff and affected.

2. The Distributive adjective pronoun, is that which refers to a noun, expressing a number of persons or things, each of which is taken separately They refer to nouns of the singular number only. Of this class there are but three, namely: each, cvery, either, as: each book of the ten books; every child of all the children, either pen of the two pens.

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Honey, Wax and Candles.

Mary. By the by', Ma', when I come to think of it', what dirty stuff honey must be'; first eaten by the bees', and then by us!

Ma. Your description of it', Mary', is certainly not very inviting. But let us call honey the syrup of flowers, drawn from the expanded bud by the probes of the industrious bees', and conveyed through the pure morning air, home to their waxen cells', where it is deposited for the use of little girls'. Mary. Now', Mamma', I like honey once more.

Ma. So much', then', my child', depends upon the manner in which things are described', and ideas meet the mind'.

Jane. Besides', Ma', your account of it', is more rational', and', I dare say', more just than Mary's'.

Mary. Well, if honey is the juice of flowers', what then is wax?

Ma. Wax is the farina, or fine yellow dust from flowers', which is eaten by the bees', and', by an animal process,' converted into wax`. Wax is white; but made yellow by melt ing`; age, also, injures the colour, but it can be restored by bleaching'.

Jane. Candles, I suppose, are made from this bleached wax'; and the yellow wax is appropriated to many useful purposes'.

Ma. You are right`, my child`; but we have finished our tea and must now begin our evening amusements`.

Mary. Why', Ma', we have already been amused and most delightfully too'. I like this better than stories.

Jane. The noise of the wind and rain', has disturbed us some'.

Mary. What'! does it rain and blow still? ah! I hear it does'; though I had lost all sense of it`.

Ma. I am glad, my children', that I have not only amused but informed you. To-morrow, I will again try to gratify you`.

ARITHMETIC.-LESSON 7.

Exercises in Multiplication of compound terms.

1 A. bought lb.63 of coffee at s.2

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2. B. sold lb.106 sugar, at sl 3 1 a lb. to what did it

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5. E. sold bls.45 cider, each g.31 - 2; find the gallons in the whole.

6. F. bot. 27 pieces cloth, each y.19 the whole?

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Ans. y.534 3 3.

Ans. $63.

7. G. bot. 12 cords of wood at $5.25 a cord; to what did it amount? 8. H. sold lb.132 of cheese, at s.1 3d. a lb. to what did it amount? Ans. £S 5. 9. K's income is $9.10 a day, to what does it amount in one year? Ans. 3321.50.

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