JONES, BROWN & CO. Bought of D. H. EVANS & CO., Oxford St., W. --------------------------------------+------------- | £ _s._ _d._ 5 pairs stockings @ 1s. 3½d. per pair | 0 6 5½ 40 needles @ 1s. 1½d. per score | 0 2 3 96 buttons @ 6½d. per doz. | 0 4 4 6¾ yds. of silk @ 5s. 1d. per yd. | 1 13 3¾ +------------- Total |£ 2 6 4¼ +============= _Composition._ (_a_) Sir Walter Scott was a well-known writer in the early part of the 19th century. His novels are read by almost everyone; and though, perhaps, his poetry is not quite so well-known, still, at most places one finds people who have read or heard of the “Lady of the Lake” or “Marmion.” The first of his novels was “Waverly” (_sic_), and so they are often called the “Waverley Novels.” The historical tales are very good, giving the reader a splendid idea of life in the 12th or 13th centuries; “Ivanhoe,” “Betrothed,” “The Talisman” and “Kenilworth” (this latter is about the 16th century, in Queen Elizabeth’s reign). “The Heart of Midlothian” is also very interesting, and “Peveril of the Peak” tells about the fighting between the Cavaliers and Roundheads in the time of Charles I., and Oliver Cromwell. The “Lady of the Lake” is about the longest poem Sir Walter Scott ever wrote; it is very beautiful, and many pieces in it are most interesting. “Marmion” tell (_sic_) of a battle, and how a Lord Marmion was killed there. _Latin._ 1. Alexander once upon a time asked a pirate whom he had taken by what right he infested the seas? At that, “The same,” said he “by which you do (infest) the world. But because I do it with a small ship, I am called a robber; you, because you do it with a great fleet and army are called a general.” Alexander dismissed the man unhurt. Did he do rightly? Alexander olim comprehensum pirātam interrogavit, quo jure maria infestaret? Ille “Eodem,” inquit “quo tu orbem terrarum. Sed quia ego parvo navigio facio, latro vocor; tu, quia magna classe et exercitu, imperator.” Alexander inviolatum hominem dimisit. Num juste fecit? _Alexander_, noun proper, masc., sing., nominative case. _Olim_, adv. modifies verb “interrogavit.” _Comprehensum_, participle used as adj., modifying “piratam.” _Piratam_, n. common, masc., sing., objective case, governed by “interrogavit.” _Interrogavit_, verb, transitive, 3rd pers. sing. Past Tense. _Quo_, relative pron., ablative case, antecedent “jure.” _Jure_, n. common, neuter, sing., ablative case. _Maria_, n. common, neuter singular, objective case to “infestaret.” _Infestaret_, intransitive verb, 3rd person singular Present Subjunctive Tense.