Precis writing for beginners

EXERCISES

		Page
1.	Reported Speech	10
2.	George Oakes	13
3.	The Cobra	15
4.	The Two Lieutenants	19
5.	The Black Republic	23
6.	The Professor and the Monkeys	27
7.	The Island	31
8.	A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial	35
9.	The Miser	39
10.	The Boy Scouts	43
11.	Child Labourers in 1836	47
12.	The Museum, 300 B.C.	51
13.	The Warning	55
14.	Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days	59
15.	The Hut-Tax	63
16.	The Mandarin	69
17.	Isaac Newton	73
18.	The Battle of the Nile	77

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