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had been made with me, so that I felt at liberty to go any time if a better chance offered indeed though a little of it while at Zanesville; there was a vacancy of teachers in a boarding school there with higher salary than I receive but the life of a teacher in a boarding school is most too slavish one for me at any price.

I sometimes think it would be better for me to seek a situation South, where I could receive perhaps double my present salary and so get through teaching the sooner.  Had I done so ten years ago I might have had by this time a nice little fund laid up for a rainy day; all I desire is enough for spending money so that I can spend my time in a beneficent mission among my brothers and sisters when they shall all be married and settled!  So to go on however in regard to the School, the Trustees voted to continue the principal Mr. Johnson two years if mutually satisfied, and myself the next year without any reservation I have made no promise to stay any definite time.  The Examination passed off very well, continued two days and evening and examining Committee was appointed, who reported, complimenting my French class and 'happy faculty of leading along the flowery paths of Belles Letters';  The term has opened well, I have two large classes in French, one young lady who has been a 

[up right side] I have come to the conclusion that the climate of Maine with its clear cold steady weather is the most agreeable as well as most healthy here we repeat a change of weather about once in two days.