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LEAnNINQ THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. 15
tanto mejores son. Cuanto mas dinero habéis, tanto
mas avaros y tanto menos benéficos sois.
Ex. 3/, page 30.
My uncle has two houses ; in one there are fourteen
rooms, three halls and two kitchens ; and in the other
one (there are) thirty-four windows, ten doors and a
great court. There are two tables, three sofas, eighteen
chairs, and seven mirrors in my room. Our neighbour
has five children, three sons and two daughters. There
are two-and-twenty trees in his garden. There are four
cats, twelve dogs, eight horses and six servants in my
cousin's house. A week has seven days, a month thirty,
and the year has three hundred and sixty-five days.
The thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred and
twenty. The twenty-third of April, in the year fourteen
hundred and ninety-one. What o'clock is it? It has
struck one. It has struck a quarter to two. It has
struck half past two. It has just struck twelve o'clock.
It is going to strike one. It is going to strike six
o'clock. It is a quarter past five. I have seen my friend
yesterday at eight o'clock in themoruing, and my cousin
at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Ex. .38, page 31.
Mi hermano ha comprado seis plumas y dos libros.
En Paris liay veinte y seis mil ochocientas y sesenta
casas, mil y ciento y diez y nueve calles, treinta y dos
paseos, ochenta y siete plazas, cincuenta y seis puertas,
veinte y tres puentes, veinte y nueve mercados, once
prisiones, doce palacios, diez y ocho iglesias, cuatro si-
nagogas, veinte y cinco hospitales, sesenta y ocho cimen-
terios y diversas bibliotecas. He recibido una carta esta
mañana á las diez. La madre de mi amigo ha muerto