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"Another day I asked the they had ever done I couldn't get the older ones to do so, but the third class answered quite freely Eliza Bell had 'set fire to her aunt's carded rolls' Asked if she ether' She just tried a little end to see hoould burn and the whole bundle blazed up in a jiffy Emerson Gillis had spent ten cents for candy when he should have put it in hissoraveyard' Willie White had 'slid down the sheephouse roof a lot of times with his Sunday trousers on' 'But I was punished for it 'cause I had to wear patched pants to Sunday School all su you don't have to repent of it,' declared Willie

"I wish you could see some of their compositionsso much do I wish it that I'll send you copies of some written recently Last week I told the fourth class I wanted the by way of suggestion that they ht tellor person they had seen They were to write the letters on real note paper, seal them in an envelope, and address them to me, all without any assistance fro I found a pile of letters onhas its pleasures as well as its pains Those compositions would atone for raabels

pe Island can birds "'Dear teacher I think I rite you a composition about birds birds is very useful animals my cat catches birds His naot one of his ears froz of last winter only for that he would be a good-looking cat My unkle has adopted a cat it coo away and unkle says it has forgot more thanchare and my aunt says he thinks ht we ought to be kind to cats and give theht not be better to them than to our children this is oll I can think of so no more at present from edward blake ClaY'"