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board them here so they may attend. Quite a number come from the Cryar place five miles down the River. The school has proved a success beyond the expectations of all of us very much to the gratification of its friends and chagrin of those who looked to see it fail. All said I could not establish discipline and the moment I attempted it they would leave school. I am learning how to manage them and dont find them least trouble. I wish you could hear them sing "The Flag of Our America" etc., It's a little ahead of any thing yet. I have both charts and blackboard but perhaps you had better send those as proposed as I will perhaps need them elsewhere or will leave them here with the house as is best-
Yours very truly B J McClelland

[[left margin]] Excuse my lengthy epistle. [[/left margin]]