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for two or three to six months.  Others have seemed ready in a little time to avail themselves of some excuse for absence & then of leaving altogether.  Hardly one in a hundred even in the departments, undoubtedly qualified, are proved to have the qualities of mind & heart & disposition to engage cheerfully & persistently in work like this, without fee or reward except the consciousness of doing good.  For several months, the Principal of this school has been aided only by the two gentlemen named & members of his own family, out of the number of eighteen who has been connected with the school.  Those who have aided any length of time in this work, have the satisfaction of knowing that for the time spent, which is hardly so much as a day & a half of ordinary school hours per month, they can see much good done.  They are cheerful & happy in being instruments of accomplishing so much by such inadequate means, & under so many disadvantages, in the elevation & improvement of those from the key