2. Next to deciding when to start your garden, the most important matter is, what to put in it.—Warner.

3. The monument is clearly right as to the year of his death.—Lowell.

4. It ran north from Jerusalem, past Bethel, between the height of Libana on the left hand, and of Shiloh on the right, entering Samaria at the south end of the beautiful valley, which further north stretches past the foot of Mounts Gerizim and Ebal.—Geikie.

5. The last time he had seen her was at a brother mason’s marriage.—Dr. John Brown.

6. Hendry slowly pulled out his boots from beneath the table.—Barrie.

7. At that time he used to preach in a little church something like a barn.—George Eliot.

8. Just outside this room Sylvia met with a little adventure.—M. A. H. Clarke.

9. Moreover, he found that the parrots, instead of being an expense, were the means of increasing his fortune.—Old Deccan Days.

10. Indeed, but for the discovery of the capacities of the chrysanthemum, modern life would have experienced a fatal hitch in its development.—Warner.

11. Their wives never came to the island until late in May or early in June.—Kipling.