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am a poor man and cannot bear those expenses and the Freedmen of this place are poor but I must say willing to do and does do what they can work is hard for them to find and those of the Freedmen who find Employment receive very low wages and it puzzels me to know how they can pay such high rents and live at all I do not speak from mere hear say or anything of the kind, for I have for the past two months made it my business to watch the actions of the Freedmen generally of this place very closely and when I have found them idle I would enquire the cause and have in many cases found them Employment and should I continue to teach them as I am so generally known by the colored people in this place and although I say it myself they love and respect me more than any man in the place and like wise my wife should it be known that I wanted a servant I would have fifty applicants in less than one day In regard to the maner in which I meet my scholars they hail me before I get to the School Room with Good Morning and I return the same to them with a plesant & chearfull countenance After I have called the Roll My School Room is as noise less as any person can desire and the Scholars are as attentive to their Studies as can be desired when I dismiss them in the Evening the Girls salutes me by making a curtsy and bidding me good Evening