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to part with their children. We have twenty one Cherokee girls in our school but only six that are called full Cherokees. Some are learning very fast I think all try but I suppose some have not so good a genius as others, we have four classes. The first attend to reading, writing, geography, spelling the definitions in the spelling look reading History. Second attend to the same only their geography is easy and they do not read in History. The third class only read and spell and learn lessons in the spelling book. The fourth can read but a little out of their spelling book they do not talk much English yet I think you would be pleased to sit in our school room and see us attend to our studies you would see some tawny? girls though some are white as any children. Some have lost father or mother and some have both. But orphans among the Cherokees have generally some kind friends, who do not think right if they do not take them and give them victuals and clothes and often they do as well by them as they do by their own children. I think you will wish to know whether the people in this nation think any more about religion. They attend meeting more than they used to though a great many of them live Ten or Twelve miles from this place and some much farther. I also have thought much on the subject of religion, have felt it was important to seek God while young. Often think of little children who seek God for new hearts when they are not only five or six years old then I think of some young ladies who are not christians and ask my self why it is so and then I answer it is because they saught God right. The missionaries are doing