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LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION.
LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, 1908.
EXAMINATION PAPERS.
ENGLISH.
Lower Grade.
Tuesday, 7th April—10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Candidates should attempt seven questions and no more—namely, Questions 1,
2, and 3; one or other of the alternatives given in Question 4 and
Question 5; one question in Section B, and one in Section C.
AI,1T:E- Section A.
10. 1. Write out, and punctuate, the passage for dictation.
[The passage will be read out at 10.45 a.m., and candidates should
reserve the first page of their books for this answer.']
20. 2. Write a composition of about two pages on one of the following
subjects:—
(a) Describe a- football, cricket, or hockey match first from the point of
view of a player, then from the point of view of a bystander.
(b) Imagine yourself on holiday in a rather remote part of Scotland;
write to a school friend, desciibing the locality, telling how you
have spent your time, and finally inviting him (or her) to join you.
Give precise instructions as to the route.
(c) “ A poor girl, who played children’s parts in a theatre, one night
received a guinea from the treasurer in mistake for half-a-guinea,
which was her weekly wage. She started ofE with it, repented,
and took it back to the treasurer.” Tell this story more fully and
dramatically, as you would tell it to a younger brother or sister;
conclude it as you please, describing the interview between the girl
and the treasurer as you imagine it.
15. 3. Read the following poem from beginning to end. Then
(a) Give in plain narrative form the essential facts of the story,
whether expressed or only implied in the poem.
(b) Point out two or three places where the poet has departed
from this plain narrative form.
(c) Select the stanza that you like best, and say why you prefer it.
“ O listen, listen, ladies gay!
No haughty feat of arms I tell;
Soft is the note, and sad the lay
That mourns the lovely Rosabelle.
‘ Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew,
And, gentle lady, deign to stay !
Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch,
Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day.
‘ The blackening wave is edged with white ;
To inch and rock the sea-mews fly;
The fishers have heard the water-sprite,
Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh.
‘ Last night the gifted seer did view
A wet shroud swathed round lady gay;
Then stay thee, Fair, in Ravensheuch;
Why cross the gloomy firth to-day ?