felt as though there could be none worse than 1 for, in addition to every other evil, I could not remember that this was only the first night of a years' voyage.

I. Write the analysis of: perfect (facere); imperfection ( captain (caput); motion (movere); preparation (parare), uni gible (legere).

II. Analyze the sentence: "There is not so helpless and pitia object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life."

From what nouns are these adjectives formed: "helpless;" able;" "insensible;" "occasional," "dreadful"?

III. Does this piece belong to the class of narrative or of des composition? Point out bits of description.

Which sentence in paragraph 7 is a period? (See Definition 1

in life. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir! In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!"

2. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

3. Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for any thing over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir, with a rule and pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.

4. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind, but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind no, sir!

Indeed, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts.

5. "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger. "I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?"

"Sissy Jupe, sir," explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying.

"Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecelia."

"Father calls me Sissy, sir," returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another courtesy.

6. "Then he has no business to do it," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Tell him he mustn't. Cecelia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?"

"He belongs to the horse-riding, if you please, sir." Mr. Gradgrind frowned, and waved off the objectionable calling with his hand.

"We don't want to know anything about that, here. You mustn't tell us about that, here.

breaks horses, don't he?"

Your father

"If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.”

7. "You mustn't tell us about the ring, here. Very well, then. Describe your father as a horse breaker. He doctors sick horses, I dare say."

"O yes, sir!"

"Very well, then.

He is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier, and horse breaker. Give me your definition of a horse." Sissy Jupe was thrown into the greatest alarm by this demand.

8. "Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!" said Mr. Gradgrind. "Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals! Some boy's definition of a horse. - Bitzer, yours."

The square finger, moving here and there, lighted suddenly on Bitzer, perhaps because he chanced to sit in the same ray of sunlight which irradiated Sissy.

"Bitzer," said Thomas Gradgrind, "your defir of a horse."

9. "Quadruped. Gramini verous. Forty teeth, n ly, twenty-four grinders, four eyeteeth, and twelv cisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy cour sheds hoofs too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be with iron. Age known by marks in the mouth." "Now, girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradg "you know what a horse is."

She courtesied again, and would have blushed de if she could have blushed deeper than she had blu all this time.

10. The third gentleman now stepped forth mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a go ment officer; always in training, always with a sy to force down the general throat, always to be hea at the bar of his little public office.

"Very well," said this gentleman briskly, sm and folding his arms. "That's a horse. Now, l ask you, girls and boys, Would you paper a room representations of horses?"

11. After a pause, one half of the children cri chorus, "Yes, sir!" upon which the other half, in the gentleman's face that "yes" was wrong, out in a chorus, "No, sir!"-as the custom is in examinations. "Of course not. Why wouldn't

A pause. One corpulent, slow boy, with a w manner of breathing, ventured to answer, "Beca wouldn't paper a room at all, I'd paint it."