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and water go down in a stream, ([[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] though hardly lighting the second story from the first) is to be plastered under without closing up the gaps;  the seams must be left in the wainscoting up stairs which has shrunk so that you can see through the two thicknesses of it from the school room into the entry, & in one place put your little finger in the crack.  The desks which have become generally unfastened from the floor, so that a child's little finger can turn them over, are to be left loose to throw more ink-stands on the already well-stained floor.  The bracing of the up-stairs floor which the Supt of Education advised me to secure last winter before any appropriation was asked for, is to be left in its present unseemly form which was only intended to be temporary.  Whenever the new bracing is put up, it will shake the building so as to endanger the plastering.

But if it is said, all these repairs may be desirable, but as long as the Bureau has not appropriated enough,