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Fifteen can legibly write their own names and also the name of their teacher. Owing to ill health I have been compelled to suspend the night school during the month. Our average attendance is 60. Scarcely a scholar is ever tardy and the advancement the school has made is very satisfactory, and the school is daily grinding down the unreasonable prejudices of its enemies. Some rare cases of aptness to learn are now and then brought to light. One girl aged 18 ys. from the country, as black as jet, and as wooly as a sheep who never did know a letter, entered school Monday morning, and is now reading & spelling in words of three letters. Every moment of her time is filled to the very best advantage. A large number are showing an aptness for writing, & committing pieces by memory. Nearly all are great singers & have a great taste for speechmaking and appearing in public on the stage. I will write a letter next week giving more in detail the general interests of our school. Tomorrow we are to have a public Barbeque & dinner. My school will take part in the stage exercises, and we are to give a concert at night. Want of proper blanks, and sickness prevent me from giving you such a report as may be desired.

Very Respectfully Submitted
E.C. Branch
Teacher