EXERCISES

		Page
1.	Reported Speech	[10]
2.	George Oakes	[13]
3.	The Cobra	[15]
4.	The Two Lieutenants	[19]
5.	The Black Republic	[23]
6.	The Professor and the Monkeys	[27]
7.	The Island	[31]
8.	A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial	[35]
9.	The Miser	[39]
10.	The Boy Scouts	[43]
11.	Child Labourers in 1836	[47]
12.	The Museum, 300 B.C.	[51]
13.	The Warning	[55]
14.	Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days	[59]
15.	The Hut-Tax	[63]
16.	The Mandarin	[69]
17.	Isaac Newton	[73]
18.	The Battle of the Nile	[77]