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Author: joseph.koivisto
Date: March 8, 2015
Annotation author: joseph.koivisto
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Quote: 
Bill, sir? she said, halting. Well, it's seven mornings a pint at two pence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.
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Despite being characterized by the men that receive her as lowly, pedestrian, or unrefined, she is able to deftly perform complex computations. A statement, perhaps, on the capabilities of subject peoples underestimated by the more refined oppressors?