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deal of good in the world and those children we have taught can go out and set up school too From your affectionate friend Lucy McPherson Jeremiah Evarts Esq.

Brainerd C N February 19 1829 Dear Sir I asked Miss Ames if I might write a few lines to you and she said she was afraid you could not read it because I have not written but a few weeks but she said I might try. I remember you the last time you were at Brainerd. You stood by the fire place in this schoolroom and talked to us. I had just come to school and was reading in my abs? I have lately heard that I had a little cousin burned to death he was but a child I then thought death was near us - o how time passes it is now a year since my grandmother died she was an old woman. She belonged to this church her soul has gone to God and her body is now mouldering in the grave. I think you would like to hear if we are good children. We are not allowed to do bad things. When we get angry we have to stand in the middle of the floor before all the scholars and say the 29 verse of the 14 chapter in Proverbs. When we tell lies we say the 22 verse of the 12 chapter of Prov. and Rev 21 chapter and start of the 8 verse. When our parents bring us sweet potatoes and bean bread if any of the children take it from us without le..? they have to repeat the commandment and Cor. 6 chap and 10 verse When we break the sabbath we say the 5 commandment I wish to be a good girl while I live n this world and when I die to go and be where God is I am smaller than the other girls that wrote I am not nine years old yet. I am sorry that I cannot write better. from your young friend Christiana McPherson Jeremiah Evart Esq.