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We discuss not religion, but Mackinac; not the school-fund, but the old associations of the island, which is dear to both of us. The four looked at me with distrust; they saw nothing dear about the island, unless it was the price of fresh meat; and as to old associations, they held themselves above such nonsense.
"What are you going to make of yourself when you are grown up, Oyvind?" said she, suddenly. "For a houseman's son, there are not many openings," he replied. "The school-master says you must go to the seminary," said she. "Can people go there free?" inquired Oyvind. "The school-fund pays," answered the father, who was eating. "Would you like to go?" asked the mother.
Every teacher who was to teach in these schools was required to pay five dollars for his certificate, which also went into the school-fund; and the end of the whole matter was, that a bare pittance was left for the thirty thousand negro children in Florida of the school age.
How kindly has the Lord so ordered it that for some time past the income for the school-fund should have been so little, in order that thus we might be constrained to let the labourers in the Day Schools share our joys and our trials of faith, which had been before kept from them!
"I should like to learn something, but not to become a school-master." They were all silent for a time. The mother hummed again and gazed before her; but Oyvind went off and sat down by himself. "We do not actually need to borrow of the school-fund," said the mother, when the boy was gone. Her husband looked at her. "Such poor folks as we?"
Accordingly she had drawn her money out of the bank and stocks, being 250l., and had brought it to me at three different times for the benefit of the Orphans, the Bible Missionary and School-Fund, and the poor saints, About two months ago she brought me 100l. more, being the produce of some other possession which she had sold, the half of which was to be used for the School Bible-and Missionary Fund; and the other half for the poor saints.
The Baptist colporteur peppered his potatoes until they and the plate were black; the Presbyterian doctor, who was the champion of the Protestant party on the island, wished to know if I was acquainted with the latest devices of the Scarlet Woman in relation to the county school-fund. 'But my friends, I replied, 'Father Piret and I both belong to the past.
When we met about twelve oclock this morning, I found that last evening there had been Bibles unexpectedly sold to the amount of 1l. 11s. 6d., and about 10s. had been given besides. Thus we had nearly enough for the School-Fund. Moreover, 15s. had come in for the Orphan-Fund.
They also have United-States and State stocks, held in trust for them by the Secretary of the Interior, to the amount of $506,427.20, divided as follows: on account of "Choctaw general fund," $454,000; of "Choctaw school-fund," $52,427.20.
By the latest reports, they had sixty schools in successful operation, all, with the exception of one managed by the Moravians, maintained out of the national school-fund, and having in attendance 2,133 scholars. Three of these schools are for the education of the freedmen living in the country.
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