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To: TXnMA
I just found this during research for a book I'm editing: Passage to America 1750
37 posted on 10/30/2015 1:56:04 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
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To: Loud Mime
Fascinating -- and totally believable. Thank you!

When I took my Texan mother-in-law to visit the replica of the Mayflower berthed in Plymouth, MA, she asked the on-board (female) docent, "Where did all the people crammed into this hold bathe?"

Replied the docent, (in supposedly-accurate period English) "Bathe? Why,Missus, no one of a sound mind would go willingly into the frigid waters of the Atlantic!"

M-I-L responded, " No I mean, 'Where did they wash'?"

To which the docent replied, "Warsh? We dinna warsh!"

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I imagine that just walking on deck past the hatch to that hold would have any of us "moderns" grabbing our noses and heading for the rail... '-)

43 posted on 10/30/2015 10:48:04 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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