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to pay for books, yet they all contributed cake, pies, etc., and we cleared sufficient to pay my board bill, which was two months in arrears; and purchase the books.

That is the drawback here—the poverty of the people.  The children are taken from school at the opening of Spring to work on farms and if they attend school at all during the Spring months 'tis so irregularly, that most of the fruits of the Winter's labor is lost.

I am preparing my little ones for a "great" examination—as the children will persist in calling it—about the middle of June and have intimated my