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* H. School is not open. Complete the above extract from a school register, and from it give— (a) The strict average attendance for the period of'six weeks; (b) The working average; (c) The average roll.

Class E. —English Geammae and Composition. Monday, March 22nd. — Morning, 10 to 1. 1. State the feminine of stag, sire, tailor, gentleman, hart, steer, moorcock, prior, hunter, fox, czar; and give three masculine nouns formed from femininos. 2. What various meanings attach to each of the following words ? Form sentences to bring out each meaning : — Train, kind, sense, hold, ground, mean. 3. Give six nouns that are formed from verbs or other nouns by internal change of the vowel, six by change of final consonant, and six by change of both vowel and consonant. 4. Punctuate the following passage:—Tho death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity men started at the intelligence and turned pale as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend an object of our admiration and affection of our pride and of our hopes was suddenly taken from us and it seemed as if we had never till then known how deeply we loved and reverenced him what the country had lost in its great naval hero the greatest of our own and of all former times was scarcely taken into the account of grief. 5. What are the past tense, indicative mood, and the perfect participle, of bid, tread, fly, lie, lay, shrive, bet, beat, lend, strew, ache, sweat, hang, work, raise? 6. Explain and-exemplify the force of the following prefixes and affixes, and name the language to which each originally belongs : —se-, apo-, un-, and-, -eo, -art, -brum, -en, -ric, -esque, -esce, -oid. 7. What pure Saxon words correspond to abnormal, acephalous, aggregate, amicable, conglobate, empyreumatic, bilateral, emporium, palpitate, perverse, salubrious ? 8. Correct, or justify, with reasons for your decision — (a) There's only three of us to-day; (J) They were all younger than her ; (c) Which is best, thine or mine ? (d) It is the only one of the sects that have never persecuted ; (e) Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign ; (/') This man may claim a place in the temple of glory which he has not filled ; (g) The mechanism of watches and clocks were totally unknown ; (h) Through tho good government of Henry VIE, in which reign commerce flourished greatly. 9. Parse fully the following words in the passage dictated: four, it, out, last, rest, right, stand, I (in " I for the Prince of Orange "), will prince, both. 10. Spell the words read by the Supervisor. 11. Write the passage dictated by the Supervisor. 12. Write a letter as to a pupil on his or her leaving school.

Class E. —Exeecise in Dictation and Spelling. (Part of Paper on English Grammar and Composition.) Monday, March 22nd. — Morning. 10. Spelling Exercise: Separate, decease, intrigue, league, reprieve, maggotty, benefited, ingenuous, characteristics, corollary, fulsome, venison, preferred, sybarite, satellite, mistletoe. 11. Dictation Exercise : The Irish were four to one: but Campbell re-solved to fight it out to the last. With a handful of resolute men he took his stand in tlie road. The rest of his soldiers lined the hedges which overhung the highway on the right and on-the left. The enemy came up. "Stand," cried Campboil: " for whom are you ?" "I am for King James," answered the leader of the other party. " And I for the Prince of Orange," cried Campbell. "We will prince you," answered the Irishman with a curse. "Fire!" exclaimed Campbell; and a sharp fire was instantly poured in from both the hedges.

Weeks. 1. 2. I 3. 4. 5. 6. '0. of attendances ( A. 19 181819^0 20 18 18 18 19 18 19 2020H. 19 20 19'l9H. M i 2120 112120 !__ I 20 10 15 20 21 1 21 22 17 20 21 21 H. 18 20 2: i 818191817 94017 1811 11181818 18 815 17 161 'otal attendances '0. of times the School has been open .verage attendance 'eekly roll number 20 20 22 22 131 18