The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of; William Carleton, Volume ThreeCarleton, William
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The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of; William Carleton, Volume Three
Carleton, William
Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
“Take Notes--That any Schoolmaster who understands Spellin'
gramatically--Readin' and Writin', in the raal way, accordin' to the
Dixonary--Arithmatick, that is to say, the five common rules, namely,
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division--and addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division, of Dives's denominations.
Also reduction up and down--cross multiplication of coin--the Rule
of Three Direck--the Rule of Three in verse--the double Rule of
Three--Frackshins taught according to the vulgar and decimatin' method;
and must be well practised to tache the Findramore boys how to manage
the Scuffle.*
* The Scuffle was an exercise in fractions, illustrated
by a quarrel between the first four letters of the
alphabet, who went to loggerheads about a sugar-plum.
A, for instance, seized upon three-fourths of it; but B
snapped two-thirds of what he had got, and put it into
his hat; C then knocked off his hat, and as worthy Mr.
Gough says, “to Work they went.” After kicking and
cuffing each other in prime style, each now losing and
again gaining alternately, the question is wound up by
requiring the pupil to ascertain what quantity of the
sugar-plum each had at the close.
“N.B. He must be will grounded in _that_. Practis, Discount, and
_Rebatin'_. N.B. Must be well grounded in that also.
“Tret and Tare--Fellowship--Allegation--Barther--Rates per
Scent--Intherest--Exchange--Prophet in Loss--the Square root--the Kibe
Root--Hippothenuse--'Arithmatical and Jommetrical Purgation--Compound
Intherest--Loggerheadism--Questions for exercise, and the Conendix to
Algibbra. He must also know Jommithry accordin' to Grunther's
scale--the Castigation of the Klipsticks--Surveying, and the use of the
Jacob-staff.
“N.B. Would get a good dale of Surveyin' to do in the vircinity of
Findramore, particularly in _Con-acre_ time. If he know the use of the
globe, it would be an accusation. He must also understand the Three
Sets of Book-keeping, by single and double entry, particularly Loftus
& Company of Paris, their Account of Cash and Company. And above all
things, he must know how to tache the _Sarvin' of Mass_ in Latin, and be
able to read Doctor Gallaher's Irish Sarmints, and explain Kolumkill's
and Pasterini's Prophecies.
“N.B. If he understands _Cudgel-fencin'_, it would be an accusation
also--but mustn't tache us wid a staff that bends in the middle, bekase
it breaks one's head across the guard. Any schoolmaster capacious and
collified to instruct in the above-mintioned branches, would get a good
school in the townland Findramore and its vircinity, be well fed, an'
get the hoith o' good livin' among the farmers, an' would be ped--
“For Book-keepin', the three sets, _a ginny and half_.'
“For Gommethry, &c, _half a qinny a quarther_.
“Arithmatic, _aight and three-hapuns_.
“Readin”, Writin', &c, _six Hogs_.
“Given under our hands, this 37th day of June, 18004.
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