History
1. One day when King James of Scotland was staying with his friend McFarlane, he saw his geese running about in the yard and playing; and the king laughed at them. And that evening they had a goose for dinner and it was so lean and tough that the king could not help saying “McFarlane, your geese mind their play more than their meat.” And always after that people that played more than they worked were called McFarlane’s geese.
Robin Hood and the Foresters
2. One day when Robin Hood was only sixteen, he was walking in the Forest with his bow and arrow, when he met fifteen foresters, who laughed at him when they saw the bigness of his bow. Then Robin got angry with them and said, “I am only out bird-shooting to-day.” But they just laughed at him the more, and he said, “I would wager my head, I hit a deer at twelve score yards.” And they held him to his word, and they staked one hundred shillings against that. Then they sent a deer galloping past him, and just as he was taking aim, one of the foresters jeeringly bade him remember his head was at stake, because he was frightened he would lose his money. And all the foresters marvelled because Robin Hood hit the deer. But Robin Hood said he wouldn’t take any man’s money, except the man’s money who had tried to put him out when he was taking aim; and that, he said, “we will spend on a feast for us all.” Then the man that had lost his money, made a cut at Robin, but Robin dashed nimbly aside, and ran away one hundred yards, and then he turned round, and shot the man that had tried to put him out when he was taking aim. The foresters saw his fall, and all ran for Robin Hood, but he shot them down dead or badly wounded as they came to him. The friends of these foresters got Robin Hood outlawed for this act.
(Children in Classes 1a and 1b narrate the answers to their examination questions, which are written at their dictation.)
FOOTNOTES:
[47] Where there are children in Ia as well in Ib, both classes should work together, doing the work of Ib in the subjects thus indicated; or, if the children are backward, that of Ia.
[48] See note, page 388.
[49] Subjects thus indicated to be marked according to Regulations.
APPENDIX D