is cold, but she has no fire. The candle is almost burned out, but she has no more candles. Her child is asleep in the cradle. She is sewing a shirt. Her husband spends all his money for rum. She works hard to get something to eat. She dares not go to bed before he comes; yet she fears he will abuse her when he comes. Poor unhappy Here is a School House. At a little distance to the right, you see the steeple of a church rising behind some trees. By the clock on the steeple, you see it is thirty-five minutes past nine. School began more than half an hour ago. That boy with the basket in his hand, is too late to school. He stopped to play by the way He will lose his place in his class, and the teacher will punish him. Lesson 57. Questions in Chronology.' 1. The creation was 4004 years before Christ. How old is the world? 2. The flood was in the year of the world 1656. How many years before Christ? and how many years ago ? 3. The Saxons came from Germany to England about A. D., 450. How long have they been in England? 4. The Normans conquered England A. D., 1066. How long ago is that? 5. Columbus discovered America A. D., 1492. How many years ago is that? 6. How long is it since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, in 1620 ? 7. How many years have elapsed since the declaration of Independence in 1776 ? 8. General Taylor was born in 1790. old is he? 9. How Millard Fillmore was born in 1800. How old is he? 1 The answers depend on the year in which the question is asked. 10. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1808. How old is he? 11. Queen Victoria was born in 1819, and married in 1840. How old is she and how long has she been married? Lesson 58. 1. How many years was the discovery of America before the settlement of Virginia in 1607? 2. How many years elapsed from the first settlement of Virginia to the declaration of Independence. 3. Abraham lived 175 years. He was 100 when Isaac was born, and Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born. How old was Jacob when Abraham died? 4. Napoleon was born 1769 and died 1821. How old was he? 5. De l'Epee was born 1712 and died 1789. How long did he live? 6. John Quincy Adams was born 1767 and died 1848. How many years did he live? 7. Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 and lived 84 years. When did he die? 8. George III. was born 1738, became King of England in 1760, and died in 1820. How long did he live, and how long did he reign? 9. How old will you be if you live till the year 1900 ? SECTION III.-ADVERBS OF PLACE. Lesson 59.-(Notes 6 and 7.) Here is a carriage. Some visitors have come. Where are you going? To Mr. Green's. There. Will you go there with me? Any where. Thank you, I cannot go any where to day. No. where. Where have you been? I have been no where. Some where. I put my pen down some where, and now I can't find it. Every where. I have looked every where for it. (Nearly equivalent to the foregoing are the following.) In this place, (house, &c.) More than two hundred deaf mutes live in this house. In that place, (town, &c,) I saw a fox in that wood. In what place was Jesus born? In. At. To. In no place are we safe from death. Any place. This train will not stop at any place this side of Harlem. Some store. I left my umbrella at some store in the city. Some place or other. Mr. N. is at some place or other in New-Jersey. Where is used as a Conjunction. That man drinks at every place where he stops. That is the field where we pick strawberries, house. In this Where did you see the fox? In this place. In its place. : I found my hat gone and a cap in its place. |