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Jane. I have been drawing to day', Ma', until I am quite stupified'.

Ma. Then you have turned a pleasure', into a pain. You do wrong my child, to sacrifice your health, and several important studies, to your favourite art'. Few gratifications, Jane, will compensate for the loss of health'; and it would be wise to reflect, always, on what we ought to do, as well as what we like to do'.

Jane. Ah! Ma, I know now what you mean`; I have omitted my arithmetic.

Ma. When you become a woman, and chance to make a mistake in your accounts', I suppose you will apologize by exhibiting your skill in drawing!

Jane. Now', Ma', you are laughing at me'.

Ma. I am, indeed, ridiculing your conduct'; and must add, that if you persist in this course', the consequences to yourself will be serious. When use is sacrificed to ornament, or duty to pleasure', it requires no gift of prophecy to predict the result. Jane. Ma, I feel truly sensible of my error', and will certainly try to correct it, and improve by your kind admonition'. Ma. Here is your sister, Mary, so intemperately fond of dancing', that I sometimes fancy she thinks me unkind`, because I call her from pigeon wings to plain reading and sewing`. Mary. Indeed, Ma, I never think you unkind'; yet I confess

I often wish there was no such thing as plain reading and sewing'.

Ma. Then you would like to grow up and be nothing but a playful monkey`.

Mary. Why, Ma! how you shock me! what, without reason'!

Ma. You could dance perfectly well without reason'; and you would enjoy it the more because you would have no sense of your defects. But with sense and without reading', how vacant and contemptible would be your mind! and without needle-work, how naked and exposed would be your body! REDUCTION. LESSON 43,

Promiscuous Exercises in Reduction.

10. Bring £35 - 10 - 7 into pence.

Ans. 20527d. 11. Bring 1357 pints into bushels. Ans. 21b-0 - 6 - 1. 12. Bring S634 square perches to acres

Ans. 54a 0 14.

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13. How many spoons of 5oz 10pwt each, may be made. from 10lb 1oz of silver?

14. In £916

Ans. 22 spoons.

10 9, how many farthings?
Ans. 879879qrs.

15. Bring 11316157 drams to tons.

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Ans. T19 14 2 19 - 11 13. 16. In 4 bales of cloth, each 12 pieces, and each piece 24 Ells English, how many yards, and also how many Ells Flemish? Ans. 1440yds. 1920 E. F. 17. From Utica to Albany is 96 miles; how many times does a wheel 18 feet in circumference, turn in going that distance? Ans. 26542, and 156 inches over. GRAMMAR. LESSON 44. Exercises in Parsing.

RULE 17. When the past participle is used without a helping verb, then it belongs, like an adjective, to some noun or pronoun, expressed or implied; as: James has a boy well. taught.

In this example, taught, is a Past Participle from the verb, to teach, and refers to the noun boy, Rule 17.

Joseph found him severely afflicted. You saw the boy badly beaten. She saw him highly honoured. The master, teaching that class, talks much. Jane, having closed her book, walked out. Mary has a book well bound. Who does that work? Whom did you see? Whose horse does he ride? F, whom you call, hear your voice. You gave me a peach,

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READING, LESSON 46.

Black and Red Crayons, Paper, &c.

Ma. Where is the drawing', Jane', that has fatigued you so much?

Jane. Here it is', Ma`; a head sketched with a pencil', and shaded with crayons'.

Mary. What very brittle things these crayons are!

Ma. Their composition renders them so'; crayons are produced from earths', reduced to paste, and dried in long slips. Red crayons are a preparation of blood stone or red chalk`;. and black crayons are composed of charcoal and black lead'. Lead pencils are also a preparation of black lead'.

Jane. But the manufacture of paper', Ma', is not so easily -accomplished'.

Ma. Indeed it is not'; paper is produced by a total change in the original materials.

Mary. I know', Ma', it is made from rags`; for some of the news-papers say', "Save your rags! save your rags!" They will help to make a Bible! How surprising the change is! --from old rags to a Bible!

Ma. The rags are first collected from various families throughout the country', by pedlars or rag men', as they are called', and then assorted for the different kinds of paper for which each is best suited'; they are then dusted and torn to small pieces by an iron instrument, with long, sharp teeth'; du

ring which they are immersed in clean water', which softens the rags into a mash or pulp'.

Mary. But', Ma', who does this work through its several stages?

Ma. It is done mostly by women and children; but for some of the heavier parts of the several operations', men are employed'.

The fine pulp', snow white', is next put into a copper vat of warm water, from which it is dipped by an iron sieve or mould`. Through this sieve, the thin and finer parts of the pulp passes back into the vat', leaving just enough behind to make a sheet of paper'.

Jane. Then the moulds give the form and texture to paper', and the kind of rags', its quality.

Ma. Just so'. The pulp in the moulds', is then turned out upon a cloth of thick felt'; then another sheet', and another cloth', until the pile is complete. It is then pressed', dried`, sized', packed in quires' and reams', and ready for market'. The whole process occupies three or four weeks'.

ARITHMETIC.-LESSON 47.
Reduction.

A, has a pipe of wine, which he puts into pint, quart, and two quart bottles, and of each an equal number; how many bottles has he?

Thus: 126 1P. & 126X4-504gts. X2=1008pts.

Then, 2qts. X2=4 pints.

1X2=2 do 1pt X11 do

7 pints in one of each of the bottles; and 1008÷7=144 answer. A, must have 144 bottles of each kind or 432 in all.

Now, if you wish to know how often an equal number of several unequal things may be had in a given thing of the same name, work after A's rule. That is,

RULE. 1. Bring the several unequal things to the lowest given term among them; then bring the given thing of the same name to the same term.

2. Divide the greater by the lesser term, and the quotient will be the answer.

B, has £50, and wants to know how many shillings, ninepences, six-pences, four-pences, and pence, of each an equal number, may be had in it.

Ans. 375.

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READING.-LESSON 50.

Mary. Is parchment also made of rags, Ma?

.Ma. Parchment is a kind of leather made of goat skins. After the hair is stripped off, the skin is put into lime water, the fleshy parts are taken off and the whole made flexible. Then it passes into the hands of the parchment maker, who shaves it thin, rubs its surface with pumice stone, and renders the parchment fit for market. Vellum is a more delicate kind of parchment, made in a similar way from the skin of calves.

Jane. The skins of calves are also used to bind books, are they not, Ma?

Ma. Yes; and sheep skins too; but when prepared for this purpose, the skins undergo a very different process; they are tanned.

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