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about amongst the Freedmen themselves and as they cannot agree about the lot they won't stand their engagement with Mr. Miller, seeing that they cannot after all have a new School house erected for them. They lack enterprise or rather perseverence, and charity towards one another - being so extremely selfish.
I am now, thank God in good health again, and try to encourage the colored people to exert themselves so that I may be able to send you and Mr. Miller good reports of the school they tell me that many more will attend school after the expiration of the present year but whether the [[strikethrough]] attance [[/strikethrough]] attendance will be large enough [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] in January to justify the continuance of a teacher here I