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From: Don Aitken <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:06:51 +0000
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:09:13 +0000 (UTC), Dennis Ahern
<> wrote:

>
>From The Cork Examiner, 29 January 1878 -
>
> CONVENT OF OUR LADY OF MERCY,
> ABINGDON, BERKS.
> YOUNG LADIES' BOARDING-SCHOOL.
> TERMS, 20 GUINEAS PER ANNUM.
> THE course of instruction comprises the English and
> French Languages, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic,
> Book-keeping, History, Geography, Map Drawing, Music,
> Drawing, Illuminating, Plain and Ornamental Needlework.
> Extras: Singing, 10s. ; Gymnastics 5s. ; Washing, 5s. a
> quarter.
> For further particulars, apply to the Superioress.
>
Fascinating. That sort of ad no doubt accounts for this:

"With extras?" asked the Mock Turtle, a little anxiously.
"Yes," said Alice: "we learned French and Music."
"And washing?" said the Mock Turtle.
"Certainly not!" said Alice indignantly.
"Ah! Then yours wasn't a really good school," said the Mock Turtle in
a tone of great relief. "Now, at ours, they had at the end of the
bill, 'French, music and washing - extra'".

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