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Then: Ye Mistress of ye School, Mistress Huff, sings, and ye Sister, 



Mistress Sharleigh Lake, plays upon ye Harpsichord. 

 Then: Ye Boy Scouts sing and whistle right merrily ye National Scout 



Song. 

 Then: Dame Osborn sings: 'Way Down in Maine — a Tale of exceeding 



Sadness to be lightened only by ye Song of Mary and her Lamb 



with Music of ye Dame's own composing. 

 Then: Mistress Stephens of ye far City of Washington sings: Ye Ballad 



of Bonnie Sweet Bessie. 



Fig. 62. — The gathering for the old-fashioned singing school at Jacksonville 



Then: Ye Singer Tommy Hopkins sings: RoUin' through an Unfren'ly 

 World. Ye School joins in. 



Note: Ye Goodman Deacon Beardsley is one of ye most 

 sympathetic Rollers. 



Note : On Sundays Tommy is Precentor, he then being Thomas. 

 Divers Members of ye School during the session recite pieces. 

 These being: 

 Tragedy of a Gentleman of Color and a Mule, declaimed by 



Joshua Hamlet Ganoung. 

 A Just Estimate of ye New Church Organ, by Sister Prudence 



Pinter. 

 True History of Barbara Frietchie, by Sweet Katrina Sweet. 

 A Learned Discourse on Equal Rights, by Evalina Nazimova 



Wallenbeck. 

 Rightfull Account of her own Visit to ye Opery, by Aunt 



Sophrony Tabor (nee Guyda Rumsey). 

 And lastly: A Skillful Exhibition of Ability; Katrina Sweet 



relating one Tale, Joshua Ganoung relating another Tale, 

 1 Dotty Beardsley relating yet another Tale, all speaking at 



one and ve same. Time. 



