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and one says "if the white people want more land let them go back to the country they came from", another says "they" have got more land than they use what do they want to get ours. I will tell you something of our happy school so you may know how we shall feel if we should be separated from each other, and from our teachers and other missionaries. Miss Ames has twenty nine scholars and more is expected which will make the school full. The studies in our school are Reading, Spelling, Writing, geography, Arithmetick, two have begun to study grammar. Eight new scholars have entered school this year four of them cannot talk english, and Miss Ames is obliged to have me interpret for her. I have a class of the younger children in sabbath school, I ask these children who do not talk english if they understood the sermon that was read and they so they do not but when my father comes on sabbath days he talks in Cherokee, then they tell me a great deal he says. I try to tell them how to spend the sabbath day and tell them where they will go when they die if they are not good. When they first enter school if they are asked these questions they often say they dont know. When school hours are over, the girls attend to domestic concerns and learn to make their own clothes and the clothes of the boys so they can do such work when they go home to assist their parents. They can then take care of their houses and their brothers and sisters and perhaps can learn their parents something that they do not understand. We have a society on Saturdays we work two hours to try