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sufficient to supply their daily wants. 

The schools at Abingdon, Wytheville, Dublin, and Christiansburg are in good condition and flourishing under competent teachers and in good houses. At these schools over (500) different persons have attended during the last three months. Their influence for good is very marked in the communities where they are located. Not only in the vicinity of the schools is their influence felt but it extends back into the mountains to obscure families and neighborhoods. As soon as the child is able to read he turns teacher at home to his brothers and sisters or parents. He reads the entertaining stories from his books or papers and repeats the instructions he receives in regard to temperance, industry, honesty, and morality to willing hearers who readily assent to the truth.

These schools in proportion to the means and expense are accomplishing more for the interests and welfare of the Colored people than any other department of the Bureau. The Whites are still bitterly opposed to their introduction and treat their teachers and advocates with scorn and contempt. No school for colored children taught

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