Murray Shoolbraid wrote:

> The included attachment...

1) It's not usually done to send attachments to mailing lists. A list
such as this is a text-only forum, where ideas and discussions - even
tunes - are conveyed in plain text. Although there are arguments that
many people are on broadband, or get free internet connection, as a
policy it has some value, making people think twice about attaching
huge photos or Powerpoint files. Your attachment is trivial in
comparison, and perhaps hardly worth mentioning, but I thought I'd make
a friendly reference to the policy.

2) It's not clear what kind of file it is. As it loads into one of my
applications which reads Word files, I assume it's a Word file.

3) Thanks for your thoughts on this. "Captain White" - in the RSCDS
book Kerr is given as the source; I can't find an earlier (Scottish)
publishing than Kerr's Merry Melodies (c1870s). It may have been an
import (from England perhaps?). "Rakes of Mallow" was reported at some
time eons ago as "The Rigs of Marlow" giving an interesting question
over its origins. Earliest Irish printing was about 1765 (Burk Tumoth);
earliest Scottish printing c1780s (Aird).

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