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morning, & listening to a few suggestions upon some one point, they each take a class of younger readers, & under the teacher's eye drill them upon the point just presented.

In Arith, they are learning thoroughly, & practically the more fundamental matters; e.g. in addition, they learn to add by tens, then by nines, adding ten & taking away one, till they can do it so fast, that they will never be tempted to add on their fingers.

Sheets of printing. paper, full of figures, (mostly 8s & 9s) to be added in a multitude of ways, are then hung up for the classes to copy, & add.  Before they are considered well-prepared to begin to teach, they are required to write out in their own language, rules, demonstrations, & explanations, as far as they have gone. In these, & similar ways, we try to make, not only the above named five, but as many as possible of the whole school, able soon to teach well the beginnings of a few branches, in order that we may supply those on every hand that are asking for teachers. Five teachers will go out to teach this season.  If we had a hundred fives, all would be needed in counties near by.