"_Notes to Schoolmasthers, and to all others whom it may consarn_.

"WANTED,

"For the nabourhood and the vircinity of the Townland of Findramore, in
the Parish of Aughindrum, in the Barony of Lisnamoghry, County of Sligo,
Province of Connaught, Ireland.


"TO SCHOOLMASTERS.'

"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