Welsh Journals

486 Old Prices Remains. The Groove. i—Ovrts. At times, too, he is Out. 2—Because it has not come to a division yet. 3—You'd be old, if—. 4—Not too old to walk into the Public and O. D., though " far too wise to walk into a well." EXAMINATON PAPER—Feb. 1st, 1864. (SCHOLARSHIP.) Two hours allowed. N.B.—Candidates not answering two-thirds of the questions to be plucked. Subject, O. P.'s Remains, Nos- 9 and 10. 1—Distinguish between belated and elated females, with examples of each. (P- 385-) 2—Show the possible connexion between the hat donner and the phrase " donner und blitzen." (p. 386.) 3—Illustrate Porson in the shades by a reference to "its Tartara sensit." 4—Describe the Flora of Wimbledon Common, and give a pertinent incident in the life of Linnaeus, (p. 389.) 5—Describe Homo tartara capta as a variety of our luckless species, (p. 391.) 6—Is Perone or Eticharis the better name for this invisible-green yEolidide. 7—Point out a radical difference between words and carrots, (p. 407.) 8—Compare "a harmless hoax" with the late hoaks in Delamere forest, and those seven still left, we hope, in Kent. (p. 436.) 10—Prove from the occurrence of "jeudi dernier" in p. 452, as well as in 453, that the best key to French is the il qui vive." II—Who called Mrs. Hannah More " the tenth Muse?" 12—Prove that the "dessert en chevre" (p. 477) was broutaL Some of the Best Answers to Examination Paper—No. X. I—" To tear first" means to tear sooner thin drag the owner down, as in p. 334 Nc VII. Thus people of a certain class are equally prepared to "hang first," or, to "see you hanged first;" to " list for a sodger first; " and so on, pro re nata. Perhaps, in such cases, lifust" is the truer ortho¬ graphy. Compare Plutot, Piutosto, MuWov, Gerner, Potitos, Gwell gennyf grogi, llwgu, and the like. 2—The old song, " I'm not such an elf, though I say it myself: but I know a pig's tail from a carrot," may throw some light on this quasstio vexata. 3—As I coloured the drawing of this very fine dead Octopus (cuttlefish), dipping the brush into him for his own Sepia, I thought of those beautiful lines on Kirke White. 4—The canvass-back^ duck is a very large Pochard, the best of American wild-fowl; often in Liverpool