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will not expect to receive as good a letter from a scholar who has not been to school as long as the children in your country but my teacher says I can write as well as her scholars at the North. If I try I should like to know if the children in your country say "learnt" when their teachers give them lessons they think hard. When Miss Ames first came into school she said that "can't" was a phrase which must not be allowed in school. In a short time I felt that I did not wish to use the word. I should like to tell you what has taken place at this station a few weeks ago. A traveller came, he was sick the family tried to do all they could for him. They gave him medicine. And they thought he would not live Mr. Vail went 20 miles after his friends and the same (?) he returned with them, the Cherokee officer came and said the sick man had stolen a horse for the Cherokees and had sold it in a white settlement they chained him and let him stay a week, till he got better. I think the Cherokees are more civilized than they were a few years ago. And some have become Christians and joined the church. I was glad that you wrote to the Cherokee children and you told about two little children George gave his heart to the Savior you did not but died with her wicked heart From your affectionate friend Lucy McPherson Rev. Fayette Shipherd