to earn
money to help his mother, such might be the case. A good girl might let
her lessons go undone in order to help her mother by taking care of the
baby.

1. What are some conditions that might make even the best boy leave
school work unfinished?............................................
...................................................................
2. What might a boy do in the evenings to help his family?.........
3. How could a girl be of use to her mother?.......................
4. Look at these words: _idle, tribe, inch, it, ice, ivy, tide, true,
tip, top, tit,
tat, toe._

Cross out every one of them that has an _i_ and has not any _t_ (T) in
it.

SET _d_

Read this and then write the answers. Read it again as often as you need
to.

It may seem at first thought that every boy and girl who goes to school
ought to do all the work that the teacher wishes done. But sometimes
other duties prevent even the best boy or girl from doing so. If a boy's
or girl's father died and he had to work afternoons and evenings to earn
money to help his mother, such might be the case. A good girl might let
her lessons go undone in order to help her mother by taking care of the
baby.

1. What is it that might seem at first thought to be true, but really is
false?
.......................................................................

2. What might be the effect of his father's death upon the way a boy
spent
his
time?.................................................................
3. Who is mentioned in the paragraph as the person who desires to have
all lessons completely
done?..............................................
.......................................................................

4. In these two lines draw a line under every 5 that comes just after a
2,
unless the 2 comes just after a 9. If that is the case, draw a line
under
the next figure after the 5:

5 3 6 2 5 4 1 7 4 2 5 7 6 5 4 9 2 5 3 8 6 1 2 5 4 7 3 5 2 3 9 2 5 8 4 7
9 2 5 6
1 2 5 7 4 8 5 6

* * * * *

Many tests have been devised which have been thought to have more
general application than those which have been mentioned above for the
particular subjects. One of the most valuable of these tests, called
technically a completion test, is that derived by Dr. M.R. Trabue.[29]
In these tests th