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the performance without even a blunder so well were they taught. I have often heard it said that colord people could never be learned to read and write like white people, but if those that have made the assertion had been present at the exhibition and witnessed the performance as I was I think would have been convinced to the contrary

Miss Hoy has earned the reputation of being a good teacher, and she deserves the name, for I am under the impression that there is few if any that could do better or even so well under the circumstances as she has now. There seems to be a backwardness in the trustees to assist in her efferts to benifit the school, as they have not paid half the attention to the school ought to have done, and the second evening there was a misunderstanding in regard to the application of the funds derived from a festival held for the purpose of defraying the expences of the school, goten up by and at her own expences, and when I arrived on the ground I found they locked her in the school house with some of the schollers and the rest of the schollers had hoisted the windows and went in the house to her and was singing as lively as if nothing had hapened  I remonstrated with the trustees. I told them that they were doing wrong when they unlocked the door and after a short delay the exhibition wen with the same result as it did on the previous evening.

I sincerely believe if the schools could secure the services of such teachers as