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"true method of instruction to teach children to think" but said Father "their facility in this instance was due to previous drilling in the practice of simple rules.  Their thought had implements with which to work.  After leaving Albany he met the father of one of his boys & asked him how he was progressing in his studies.  "oh" said he "after you left he did admirably."  You could not pay me a higher complement replyed Father his success was due to the drilling I gave him.  But while he thus strongly advocated the doing faculties in the instruction of youth he would not have the thinking faculties neglected.  The Professors in England went to the opposite extreme & only a few days ago he had been surprised by the ignorance of a fellow Oxford who asked him simple questions in science wh. a school girl in this country could answer.
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He closed by saying I have always Mr. Welling merged self in the ^[[? of the]] cause in wh I have been engaged it is the only way to succeed.
Laughed at Mother and her protégé Mary the guardian angel who has lost her sight & having no home Mother has taken her on.  Father got her a permit to sell matches on the avenue & one of the servants takes her to the stand and brings her home every day for which she blesses Mother with true Irish highperbole "May her blessings reach 
"you Madame" said Mr. Welling 
"as he rose to go.  May the Blessing of 
"the Holy virgin & all the saints 
"follow your honour said an Irish beggar 
"to a gentleman who took out his purse 
"to give him an alms, but never reach 
"ye."  he added as the purse disappeared unopened in the gentleman's 
"pocket.  Good night St. Agness
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10th  Father amused us this evening by undertaking to comb Mother's hair.  The gravity with wh. the