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Lesson 7.-Tuesday.-Geography. Write and Learn.

CAPITALS.

LON'-DON, on the River Thames (tems), is the capital of England. ED-IN-BURGH, near the Firth of Forth, is the capital of Scotland.

DUB'-LIN, on the River Liffey, is the capital of Ireland.

Wales has no capital, but CARNARVON, on the Menai Strait, is often called the capital.

England means "The land of the Angles," and it gets this name from one of the three tribes of Saxons who conquered the country in the 6th century.

Wales means "foreigners." The Saxons called the Britons, whom
they conquered and drove to the west, "Wealas," or foreigners.
Scotland means "The land of the Scots." A tribe of Irish who came
over in the 6th century, and gradually overrun the country, gave
it this name.

Ireland probably derived its name from "Hibernia," which the
Romans gave it. The native name is "Erin."

Lesson 8.-Wednesday Morning.

Work these Sums.

(1) Add £2 4s. 6d. ; £386 9s. 8d.; £716 9s. 9d.; £482 17s. 10d. ; £686 13s. 4d.; £938 14s. 7d.

(2) Add £786 19s. 9d.; £2,764 18s. 3d.; £9,864 17s. 8d.; £976 8s. 3d.; £384 17s. 9d.

(3) If a grocer sells three thousand three hundred and eighty pounds of tea in a year, how much is that per week?

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Lesson 9.-Thursday.-Grammar. Learn and Write.

WORDS are divided into EIGHT classes, called PARTS OF SPEECH.

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A SENTENCE is a COMPLETE THOUGHT expressed in words, or a Collection of WORDS that make COMPLETE SENSE.

Ex. 3. Write out SIX words with no other vowel but “a," six with “e,” six with "i," six with "o," and six with "u."

Ex. 4. Make sentences telling something about a pig, a lion, a monkey, a top, a hare, and a hen.

Lesson 10.-Friday Morning. Work these Sums.

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THIRD WEEK.

Lesson 11.-Learn for Monday Morning.

St. MATTHEW, Chapter XIII., Verses 24-27; OR ELSE LEARN

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Lesson 12.-Tuesday.-Geography. Write and Learn, ENGLAND AND WALES.

BOUNDARIES, EXTENT.-England is bounded on the north by Scotland, on the east by the North Sea, on the south by the English Channel, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, St. George's Channel, and the Irish Sea.

Its greatest length-from Berwick-on-Tweed to Lizard Point, in Cornwall-is 420 miles.

Its greatest breadth-from Land's End, in Cornwall, to Lowestoft Ness, in Norfolk-is 360 miles.

The narrowest part, between the mouth of the River Tyne and Solway Firth, is only about 60 miles.

The total area is 58,000 square miles, of which Wales contains 7,000 square miles.

A square mile is a square thus, of which each of the four sides

measures one mile.

The population of England and Wales is about 23,000,000.

Lesson 13.-Wednesday Morning. Work these Sums.

(1). £686 0s. 94d. + £5,694 18s. 104d. + £7,786 3s. 11d. + £8,564 16s. 9 d. + £67,862 13s. 01d.

(2). 98,764 72.

(3). In a battle, out of eighty thousand men, one thousand and one were killed, and two thousand and ninety were taken prisoners. How many escaped?

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Lesson 14.-Thursday.-Grammar. Learn and Write.

A NOUN is the NAME of anything.

The word noun means name.

The boy reads.

The lion roars.

London is a city.

Sugar is sweet.

The whiteness of the snow dazzles my eyes.

Here the words boy, lion, London, sugar, whiteness, snow, eyes, are all nouns, because they are all the names of something.

Ex. 5. Write out SIX names of things in the school. Ex. 6. Write out SIX names of things out of doors. Ex. 7. Put a line under the NOUNS : thus-The top hums. Tom cracks his whip. The fox steals the poultry. Truth is stranger than fiction. William the Conqueror sailed from Normandy. Honesty is the best policy.

Ex. 8. Write out and fill up the spaces with NOUNS.-The runs fast. The fisherman caught a

Cows give us

The

scholar learnt his

The barks, the

mews, the

neighs, the

crows, and the

clucks. The terrier is a

kind of

Lesson 15.—Friday Morning.

Work these Sums.

(1). £6,786 10s. 91d. + £3,842 7s. 6d. + £47 Os. 9d. + £368 0s. Od. + £7,386 11s. 11ąd. + £39 9s. 11ąd.

(2). £279 18s. 74d. + £76 13s. 10 d. + £1,864 16s. 91d. + £4,800 1s. 9d. + £3,762 17s. 10ąd. + £846 13s. 6d.

(3). What is the difference between three times twenty thousand and six and twelve times seven thousand and eight?

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FOURTH WEEK.

Lesson 16.-Learn for Monday Morning.

ST. MATTHEW, Chapter XIII., Verses 28-30; OR ELSE LEARN—

A PSALM OF LIFE.

Tell me not, in mourn-ful num-bers,1
"Life is but an emp-ty dream!
For the soul is dead that slum-bers, 2
And things are not what they seem.]

Life if real! Life is earnest !*
And the grave is not its goal:5
"Dust thou art, to dust re-turn-est,"
Was not spoken of the soul.

2 slumbers, sleeps, is not

1 mournful numbers, poetry expressing sorrow. active. 3 real, an actual thing. earnest, something to be striven after. goal, the end, the winning post, as in a race.

Lesson 17.-Tuesday.-Geography. Write and Learn.

COUNTIES,

England and Wales is divided into 52 counties, England having 40 and Wales 12.

The most populous counties are Middlesex, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Stafford, Kent and Durham. The least populous are Rutland, Huntingdon, and Westmorland.

Counties are so called because they were formerly governed by counts or earls.

Shire is another name given to the counties. It comes from a Saxon word "sciran," to divide-hence a shire is a division of the country.

Alfred the Great, who reigned from A.D. 871 to 901, is said to have divided England into counties.

Several of the counties are divided into "Hundreds," that is, into parts, which formerly contained 100 families, and others into "Wapentakes," which are divisions similar to Hundreds.

Yorkshire is divided into three "Ridings," or tithings, that is, third parts, called the North, East, and West Ridings. Sussex is divided into "Rapes."

Lesson 18.-Wednesday Morning. Work these Sums.

(1) £3,978 13s. 6d. + £479 16s. 84d. + £8 + 10s. 04d. + 14s. 9 d. £1,000 0s. 6d. + £7,897 + 1d.

(2) Add together one pound; two half-crowns; five sixpences eight threepences; and six farthings.

(3) In two hundred and ninety-eight boxes there were seventy thousand and five oranges. How many were there in each box?

bored .hollowed
board ......a piece of wood
brays ......roars as an ass, pounds

braze...to solder with brass broach..to split, to tap, to let out brooch..an ornament

Lesson 19.—Thursday. Grammar.* Learn and Write. A PRONOUN is a word used instead of a NOUN. Tom had a new book given to him; he liked it very much.

Here Tom is a noun, and him and he are pronouns used instead of saying Tom again. Book is a noun, and the pronoun it is used instead of book.

Mary lost her boots, and she could not find them.

Mary and boots are nouns, and she and them are pronouns used
instead of these nouns.

The following words are pronouns. Learn them all well.
I; thou; he, she, it; we; ye, you; they.

My, mine; thy, thine; his, her, its; our, ours; your, yours;
their, theirs.

Me; thee; him, her, it; us; you; them.

Who, whose, whom, which, what.

Lesson 20.-Friday Morning. Work these Sums.

(1) Add one thousand and five pounds and tenpence farthing; three shillings and sixpence halfpenny; eightpence three farthings; two hundred and ninety-eight pounds ten shillings; and four thousand and ninety-nine pounds sixteen shillings.

(2) £413 13s. 104d. + £7,064 6s. 4 d. + £7 8s. 24d. + £1,000 + 94d. + 8s. 81d. + åd. + £64 16s. 4d. + £5 13s. 91d.

(3) Find the ninety-eighth part of one million and seventy.

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FIFTH WEEK.

Lesson 21.-Learn for Monday Morning.

ST. MATTHEW, Chapter XIII., Verses 31-33; OR ELSE LEARN—

A PSALM OF LIFE-(Continued.)

Not en-joy-ment1, and not sor-row Art3 is long and time is fleet-ing, Is our des-tined2 end or way; And our hearts though stout and brave, But to act, that each to-morrow Still, like muf-fled drums are beating Find us far-ther than to-day. Fu-ner-al marches to the grave, 1 enjoyment, pleasure. 2 destined, appointed, fixed. 3 art, anything done by man's skill, fleeting, passing quickly away. 5 funeral marches, music played at a soldier's funeral.

* The pronoun is not required for Standard III., but it will simplify the teaching afterwards to include it in this course. The children need only learn the names of the pronouns.

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