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Again, here is a school that is held in a [[underlined]] meeting house [[/underlined]] of a colored church. During this month it is successful progress, and [[underlined]] real good [[/underlined]] is accomplished — fifty, sixty, seventy five are being taught three nights in the week what they [[underlined]] need to learn. [[/underlined]] The next month a protracted meeting is started and continues through the month — The church edifice, which is the school room, is occupied with the meeting and the attention of the members of the school with the exercises of the meeting.

Now I report for October a school at such a place, with so many teachers, so many pupils, such and such studies pursued. For November I have no report — [[strikethrough]] there is no school, [[/strikethrough]] there are no pupils in attendance, ^[[insertion]] there is no school [[/insertion]]  All this, reported in the usual form, makes the impression that there is irregularity, or