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commonly five or ten, sometimes as high as twenty five cents a month.  During the winter especially the number contributing has been so small, that the expenses have been in arrears, & the school become several dollars indebted to the Principal.
One class had adopted the Class Book of Science, published by Hammersly of Hartford, (a book of much permanent value,) for a reading book, paying themselves seventy five cents a copy.  Two or three other classes much need some appropriate & cheap reading book; while for beginners, the easy reading of the "Freedman" paper seem to be more suitable than any book to be found.  A gratuitous supply of Colburn's Arithmetic, with oral teaching & the blackboard, meet our wants in this branch.  A blackboard, a cupboard for books & papers, & a shed in the yard for wood & coal, have been provided by the school. General oral instruction [[strikethrough]] has been given [[/strikethrough]] in geography & on language, with the teaching of writing mostly on the slate, has been given.  Reading, spelling,

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