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to read. After he had got so he could read L th(j 
Bible he attended the boys^ Bible-class, taught by 
Thomas Caulker, Tuesday nights. On our way 
home from the class, one night, in answer to my. 
question as to what their lesson was about, he said 
they “been read ’bout where dem people keep 
meetin’ dey get one gate name Beautiful, an’ dem 
carry one man what no liable for walker and lay 
him dere to beg dem people for copper [they 
call all money copper]; and when Peter and 
John want for go in, he say, ‘ Come, gie me cop- 
per, now.’ Peter say, ‘ I no get, but dat ting what 
I get I go gie you ; get up walk, now.’ So he be- 
gin for walker.” Joseph Gomer. 
THE BOYS AT SHENGAY. 
Among the boys at Shengay, some are very in- 
teresting and some have very interesting names. 
Very ofte^n children, when only a few months old, 
are given to persons living in another village, to 
• be raised, and seldom see their mother or father, — 
in fact, the father is very little thought of by 
many. Numbers of the people believe that 
strangers can raise their children better than the 
parents. They say that the children will mind 
strangers better ; and this, in many cases, is true, 
because the parents do not know how to gain their 
children’s love, but say they must whip them to 
