etter things, and, we think,
with some success. He has learned to read and spell very well; besides
these, he has attended to writing and arithmetic, and has made some
improvement in them. The first winter that he came to live with us, we
did not think it best to send him to our Public School, but kept him
under our own personal instruction. The last winter he attended our
Public School five and a half months. He has been in our Sabbath School
from the time he first came, and has usually had his lessons well. He
has, from the first, been glad to attend all religious meetings, and we
think that his moral perception of things has much improved, and we can
but hope that, with proper attention, he may grow up to be a useful and
respectable man. He seemed quite satisfied with his home.
"'Yours, most respectfully,
"'C. S. B.'"

"This, again, is about a poor friendless little girl, sent to a good
family in old Connecticut:--

"'N----, CT., Oct. 11, 1855.
"'MR. MACY:

_"'Dear Sir_--With regard to Sarah, I would say that she is a very good
girl, and is also useful to us, and, I think, fitting herself to be
useful to herself at a future day.

"'She has now been with us about two and a half years, and has become a
part of our family; and we should feel very sorry to part with her. She
attended school last winter at the N. Union High School, which affords
advantages equal to any school in the country. She made much improvement
in her studies, and at the end of the winter term a public examination
was held at the school, and Mr. B., the Principal, stated, in presence
of more than three hundred persons, that Sarah G. lived in my family,
and was taken by me from the "Children's Aid Society," of New York; and
stated, also, that when she commenced to go to school, she was unable to
read a word, and wished them to notice the improvement that had been
made in her case. The audience seemed to be surprised that she had been
able to accomplish so much in so short a time.

"'She also attends Sabbath School very regularly, and gets her lessons
very perfectly, and appears to take great delight in doing so. I think
she has improved in many respects. She speaks, occasionally of the way
in which she used to live in New York, and of the manner in which she
was treated by her parents, when they were alive,