PUPIL's GUIDE

TO

PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC,

Containing all the rules, which oc cur in common business.

Calculated upon the method both of Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, and Federal Money FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.

BY JONATHAN GROUT, Jr.

A

SECOND EDITION.

SUTTON, (MASS.)

Printed by SEWALL GOODRIDGE,

FOR ELIJAH BURBANK, WORCESTER,

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT,

L.S.

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TO WIT.

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Remembered,

That on the first day of April in the twenty fixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JONATHAN GROUT, JUN. of faid District, hath depofited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit, "THE PUPIL'S GUIDE TO PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC, containing all the rules, which occur in common bufinefs. Calculased upon the method both of Pounds,Shillings and Pence, and Federal Money. For the we of Schools. BY JONATHAN GROUT, JUN.”

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by fecuring the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of fuch copies during the times therein mentioned."

N. GOODALE, Clerk of the Dif
trict of Maffachusetts.

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PREFACE.

NOTWITHSTANDING the feveral arithme

tics now in ufe, it has been fuggefted that one, containing fuch rules only, as occur in trade and bufinefs, and adapted to the capacities of youth, would be of extenfive utility. The price will be fo much reduced by the omission of those rules which are

neceffary in common business, that the poor, as well as the rich, may furnish themselves with books; which has been too much negle&ed in moft of our country schools. Thofe, who wish to make farther advances can perufe more extensive treatifes.

THIS is calculated upon the method, both of pounds, fhillings and pence, and federal money, because both are in ufe; but either can be omitted, if thought neceffary.

THE author does not prefume to offer this as a production entirely original; on the contrary, he acknowledges that be bos made many extreds from Bonnycaftle's Scholar's Guide, and fome from Vyfe's Tutor's Guide, and is indebted for fome aid, to a few other cuthors:

In pursuing the plan of the work, he has en. deavored to make the rules as plain and as consife as poffible. Whether it be well excesited or not, is not for him to determine. With deference it is