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when it was charged that he was not loyal we brought him home— After that the board would not send him out again from this association— but he seemed to want to go again, to show how well he could do, and Mr Coates took quite an interest in him. I called on some friends and we collected 60$ in money and some books & garden seeds for him, and sent him to you in hopes that he might be accepted as a teacher, after you had seen him, and knew why this association would not send him out—

I told him that our teachers in Maryland recv. from +20 to 25$ per month and that his 60$ would pay his