SCHOOL DUTIES. 201 
" We attend school five days in the week, 
five hours each day. Our routine of school- 
duties is as follows : namely, Commence 
with prayer and praise ; conclude with the 
same. Monday, recital of weekly tasks, 
reading the Holy Scriptures, writing, arith- 
metic, and class spelling. Tuesday, the same 
as on Monday. Wednesday, reading in 
history and geography, transcribing select 
portions of Scripture, &c. Thursday, similar 
to Monday and Tuesday. And on Friday, 
which is the busiest day of the week, tran- 
scribing words with their definitions from 
Walker's Dictionary ; read hymns, or other 
devotional and moral poetry ; repeat Watts's, 
and the Church Catechism; arithmetical 
tables, &c. &c. ; and emulative spelling con- 
cludes the whole : we are generally an 
hour longer at school on this day than any 
other. On Wednesday afternoon the elder 
scholars attend the Bible class, with their 
parents. On the Sabbath, Divine Service is 
performed twice, and all who can possibly 
attend do so. 
" The present so kindly sent us by the Eev. 
Mr. Thompson, received so much injury from 

