I haven't really gotten into the habit of reading books from my computers or Ipad so tonight when I looked up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (463) which is one of the top 100 free downloadable books I tried this one online onto my Ipad because on my Iphone the print was too small for me to read easily. This worked great and I just learned something new already. My mother's mother that helped raise me was from Scotland and spoke with a brogue was born in 1888 which is the date mentioned in the book. also, I didn't know what a black vizard mask was before now which was a 16th century mask often worn in Western Europe:
Visard - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visard
A visard (also spelled vizard) is an oval mask of black
velvet, worn by traveling women in the 16th century to protect their
skin from sunburn. It was not held to the head by a fastening, but
rather the wearer would clasp a bead attached to the interior of the mask between their teeth. The fashion of the period for wealthy ...
Visard - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visard
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