is better, take the Tower of Babble.
They built it, I suppose, many miles high, and the Lord looked down and
mixed up their grammar. So if a man was on top of the tower he would
call down, 'John, bring up the hammer,' and John would come up with a
saw. Then he would send him down for the hammer again, and John would
bring up the nails. How much could we learn of religion, of history and
the world around us, if it were not for grammar? Would 1-2-3 tell us all
that?"

But I have not left much room to tell about the good side. Many of the
papers, for neatness, accuracy and clear expression, would do credit to
any children in the world. Especially is this true of the younger
pupils, who have received the training of the lower grades of the
school. One essay on Slavery, by a member of the Ninth Year Class,
written in two days, contained twenty pages, with scarcely an
unnecessary word, and very few mistakes. I wish you could hear some of
the sensible talks in prayer-meetings, and fervent prayers for
classmates, teachers, and the kind people at the North who are trying to
help them.

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A teacher from North Carolina sends the following:

There is not a girl in my school who uses tobacco, and that is saying a
good deal. I cannot be so sure about the boys, but none use it in school
or on the play ground.

One day our grammar lesson was changing possessive modifiers to
equivalent phrases, and the sentence "Washington's farewell address"
came up. One boy wrote, "Washington's farewell address was made of
broadcloth."

A colored minister, after reading his text on Sunday, said, "I shall put
the greatest distress of my remarks on the latter clause of the verse."

Another minister said, "At one of my stations there were men who called
themselves conjurers. One of these with his followers went to church to
challenge me. He asked me if I could cast out devils. I told him I
could, and as _he_ was the only man in the house who had a devil, if he
would come up to the stand, I would cast the devil out of him. The
conjurer abused me terribly, became so excited I started down towards
him, and dared him to meet me, and he turned from me and ran out of the
house, so you see if I could not cast the devil out of him, I cast both
him and the devil out of the house."

At another place, he said, the people became very much stirred up
concerning the temperance cause, so much so that many closed their