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Two could roughly write their own names when school commenced, and none could compute scarcely the simplest example of Arithmetic by figures, not one being able to read or make the figures. All can now read the figures, and the most of the scholars can read & make them, and print, or write words of two or three letters quite well, and several can write their own names, and write out the Multiplication Table very well indeed. Our writing is all done on slates as we have no desks.

The entire school has made remarkable good progress and the parents show commendable interest in their children by sending them punctually and steadily during the month  Scarcely one has been tardy or absent during the month. A Sunday School was opened, in which we teach the ordinary book, or weekly lessons, and also a lesson is given from the New Testament, which seems to be listened to with marked interest. We then sing a few Sunday School Hymns & close the exercises. We hold two sessions daily one at 9 A.M & the other at 5 P.M. Our house is filled on Sunday. We shall be obliged to "lengthen our cords, and strengthen our stakes" soon. Not a New Testament can I find in a colored family of this place. "The field is rough", but the "seed sown seems to be taking root", and I hope to see a plentiful harvest soon

I will write a letter next week giving items more in detail next week.

Very Respectfully Submitted
E. C. Branch
Teacher