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for their schools, as well as houses in which to worship. They might give still more, if they could be assured they could [[strikethrough]] have [[/strikethrough]] use the school houses as places of worship on Sundays. They now have no places for that purpose. They are wide awake on the subject of schools, and their heart is in this matter. The same is true elsewhere.

At Brook's Hollow the freedmen own a plot [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] of ground for a school house.