THE LONDON BOARD-SCHOOL BOY.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7805, 7 March 1891, Page 2

THE LONDON BOARD-SCHOOL BOY.

Here are a few select answers called the examination papers of candidates km scholarships open to all boys In Lou-Ssfl elementary schools:— m ' I. Sir laaac Newton was a great poet ih a novelist who also looked after shM**,-* great man of England who invented tfill properties of the sunbeam.—He llttdn| Abney Cemetery, where he Is now.-W lived In George IV,'s reign, anddlscof«l the laws of gravity. if 2. John of Gaunt was King of All ls|i land and signed Magna Charter. if 3. Henry VIIL waa excommunicated Ms cause he would not let Anaelra ba Ax&m deacon of Canterbury. 1 4. The* South Sea Schemes. One <!$y tf young man said tbat people woufe' m rewarded In the afternoon, out; whw lA, tlckafc--hcadera went tohtootik»&erMLJ&l the shutters up, and the young man Ud/'l gone off to the Continent. # 6. The leader of Home Bole Is Lord Glid*l stone and Parneli is against It. I 6. Aden ls the place where Adara and i Eve lived. 1

7. New Orleans Is where Joan of Ara was burned alive. 8. London fog is caused by tha amonnti of forest land and Eafiox rasrahiev Tha smoke rises into the air, thus increasic-* its weight. The pressure of the alt tomt the clouds down. 9. Watershed is the water running off** shed. A lot of hills and water lv tk valley. A river encloied by two or eaosa mountains. 10. Ariver basin is the hole a river makes in the ground. 11. A sentence In which as fa asedboth as an adverb and a conjuoction •—•* lehall come out to play, a* my mother as goa* out." (By a plagiarist) :-•• 1 shall cotsout to play as my mother has gone oat V tea."