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The aim of the teachers has been to prepare their pupils to take
the position of instructors, when the inclination becomes appar-
ent, and in several instances our schools have thus been supplied

with efficient assistants ;—some allusion is made to these in the
following extracts from letters of more recent date.

Cornelia Hancock writes from Mount Pleasant, S. C.—

«This month (Hleventh,) the weather has been unusually fine,
hence the extremely good average. Out of thirty-six pupils in
my department, there is an average attendance of thirty-four! It
looks formidable in the morning, to see in the yard one hundred —
and fifty children, who must be assembled and brought into order
by three teachers. We assemble in one of the rooms below stairs,
and read a portion of the Bible to them, and ask them questions
upon it. After the opening exercises we separate to oug respec-
tive rooms, and commence the lessons for the day. The attendance
aud interest of the scholars continue so good, that we are able to.
‘make promotions, and keep up a thoroughly graded school.

‘| wish some of you could visit this school, and see and know
how much these pupils have accomplished for themselves in the
space of two years.”

Mary A. Taylor, also at Mt. Pleasant, remarks :—

‘‘ Little that is new can be said of our school; nor do I know that
there should be anything new; only the old, well persevered in.
The average has been unusually good this month, (forty-three
out of forty-five.)- In these schools we do not have to make the
ordinary allowance for sickness, for they come when they are sick,
sit around the fire until their chills have passed off, and then re-.
sume their work. I have counted forty-three or forty-five every
day, and flatter myself that I can see an improvement daily.
Some scholars have never missed « single day, since I first came
to South Carolina. The colored teacher we have assisting us is
a very good singer, and we have taught the children a number of —
beautiful little hymns which they sing very sweetly.”’ |

Isabel Lenair a colored teacher at Mount Pleasant, is supplying
the place of Esther Hawks, (who. has been delayed from reaching
her school. by impassable roads, in that portion of Florida from
which slte is to come;) and is giving satisfaction to our other
teachers located there, who have a supervision over her school.
Her report is confirmatory of the estimation in which she is held.
She has seventy pupils, all between 6 and 16 years of age; 41
write, 45 read, and 27 are in the alphabet.