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1. For-tune.

2. Foot-stool.

3. Friend-ship.

4. Wel-come.

5. Fire-brand.

6. Cod-ling.

7. Al-so.

8. An old maid.

9. Match-less.

10. Bride-groom.

11. Cof-fee.

12. End-less.

13. Brace, race, ace.

14. Nose-gay.

15. House-wife.

16. Horn pipe.

17. Co-nun-drum.

18. Sup-port-er.

19. Boat-swain.

20. Lap-pet.

21. Rattle-snake.

22. Break-fast.

23. Watch-man.

1. XIX. XX.

2. Twice twenty-five is 50, and twice five, and twenty, is 30.

3. Eleven—they are a penny a-piece.

4. One—but your hearers will be apt to answer two, supposing you said one hundred and one.

5. Seven hundred and ninety-two—the former being 72, and the latter 864.

6. It is always half the sum you desire to be added that remains.

7. Fivepence three-farthings. The two-thirds of the three-fourths of any thing are just the one-half of the whole.

8. IX., SIX.

9. Inch, chin.

10. XIII., X.

11. Seven shillings.

12. 3 pigeons at 4d.=12d.; 15 larks at ½d.=7½d; 2 sparrows at ½d.=½d.20d.

13. 11s. 1d.

14. £2 2s. 8d.

16. Two and a-half. There are three thirds in 5, therefore a-third and half a-third make exactly half.

17. | | | | | | NINE.

18. A paid £2 18s. 4d., B £1 13s. 4d., and C 8s. 4d.

19. Nineteen minutes.

20. She first filled the 5-quart measure, and from it filled the 3-quart measure; then emptied the 3-quart measure, and put into it the 2 quarts that remained in the 5-quart. She