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earnest desire for education.

One of the most humane and excellent gentlemen of Lexington long a resident of Kentucky told me he was astonished to see such an intense desire for information, and that he thought the freed children were learning faster than the whites of the same age. - Persons at the age of fifty are learning to read and write.

In Lexington they are well provided with schools, but sadly deficient in Country places.