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_Examiner_ (_courteously_). Have you studied any Latin author?
_Candidate_ (_with hesitation_). I once looked into CORNELIUS NEPOS,
but never could construe half a dozen lines.
_Exam._ What have you studied in Greek?
_Can._ Tried the first page of VALPY, and got through the present of
[Greek: tupto]--then gave it up.
_Exam._ Do you know anything about Mathematics?
_Can._ Fancy I have heard of the Rule of Three, but hanged if I know
much about Fractions.
_Exam._ (_a little despairingly_). Can you give the dates of the four
WILLIAMS in English History?
_Can._ No. Suppose followed one another, as shillings of the time of
WILLIAM THE FOURTH still in use. Suppose WILLIAM THE FIRST must have
been about the end of the Eighteenth Century.
_Exam._ (_with new hope_). Do you know anything about Geography?
_Can._ Not without a _Continental Bradshaw_.
_Exam._ (_nothing daunted_). Can you tell me the name of the spot
which is supposed to be the centre of the universe?
_Can.
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