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pupils, coming for a day, or day's study when inclement weather or any chance releases them from work at home.

Now the day of jubilee- Christmas, is passed & warm homespun, fresh from the loom, supplants the treacherous sags of early Winter, the rapid accessions promise speedy recovery of our old no's.

Rewards, the teachers constant encouragement & appreciation, are ever tho potent & effectual necessities to excel: while harshness & disparagement, at once check zeal, & chill enthusiasm.

There is evidence of increased thrift among the people, indicated by more comfortable clothes, & a better supply of comforts & conveniences of life. yet they plead dire poverty for the non-payment of timber & their children's absences fr. Sch. for the 2 mos of this session for #2.00 has been paid for tuition ags't $18 for the corresponding mo's last yr. & nearly $20 for books. Among the most constant in attendance, the most painstaking in study & the promptest in paym't are those who have a daily walk of 9 miles to the Sch.

The monthly charge .25cts per scholar is not obligatory. Dr. N urges all to come paying if the can, freely if they cannot. In large families where each little pair