SOME EXAMINATION GEMS.
What is a circle P—A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle of it. How are the seasons paused P—The earth’s axis is a pole which goes through the centre of the sun, and as the sup goes round it turns our axis round, and thus we get our seasons. Give the future of drink—-Present, he drinks; future, he will be drunk. Explain "gender.”—-Masculine, man; feminine, woman j neuter, corpse. -What is the difference between climate and weather P-?-Climate lasts all the time hut weather laeta only a few daysCpmpaxe “ilj. ill; comparative, worse; superlative, dead* daupdipe means a scandal. Mosquito, a child of blagfc and white parents. Herodotus was a descendant of Herod the Great, and was King of the Jews. The Aryans spoke the French language. _ x Virgil was a great Italian author, and wrote “The Charge of the Six Hundred.” Diogenes was a great author, and for some time King of Russia.” Longfellow wrote the ‘Tliad” and “Paradise Lost.” Plato was the Father of Language, and married the daughter of Thought. Tennyson was the greatest Roman prose writer that ever lived* A brute is an imperfect beast; a man is a perfect beast.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)
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