CHAP. II.
Chronology.
The pupil is, by this time, supposed to have fixed all the symbols in the first room, and to be enabled to tell readily the first, seventh, thirtieth, forty-ninth, etc. and also to say what place is occupied by Midas, Sisyphus, etc. In making the application to chronology, we shall confine ourselves to the succession of the kings of England since the conquest.
1. William the Conqueror. A word must be now made from William; the first half wil is taken, and to this is added low, by which willow is obtained; this enables us to remember William. The willow is fixed upon the Tower of Babel, our first symbol; we have then William I. but another circumstance remains; he was the conqueror:—we hang some laurel, the reward of valour, and the crown of conquest, upon the willow tree. The date is yet wanting:
