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2. Which fictitious school:
i. was convenient for the Cockchafer at Maltby?
ii. lay in a cradle of fog and fog-bound pestilence?
iii. stressed the four D’s: Dramatics, Dance, Debating and Dating?
iv. was a long and cold-looking house, one story high, with a few straggling outbuildings behind, and a barn and stable adjoining?
v .was founded in the eighth century by a Saxon saint and was the abode of monks until the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
vi. had been partially endowed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the wealthy widow of a bookbinder, who had been an admirer of Garibaldi before she died?
vii. boasted an observatory to study worms, the fortifications to pot at gamekeepers and that round thing which hav no use at all?
viii. towered behind the crumbling fragment of a picturesque fort, which rose high above the beach?
ix. allowed students to bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad?
x. accommodated The Fat Owl of the Remove?

q.1 (komplete with korrekt answers in komments) is HEAH

anyone who does not get vii is a WET AND A WEED as any fule kno

Re: w/o google

Date: 2008-01-03 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
also = secreted 1 x DEAD CAT under floorboards of neighbouring "house" (which are all connected) --> there's a nice subliminal arts&crafts movement in-joke where beetle has been reading "the story of a house" by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (January 27, 1814 – September 17, 1879), French architect and theorist,, who he calls "some chick called violet" (well he doesn't say chick but i'd have to look up the exact quote)

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