“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.