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"Yes."

"Seven weeks."

"Can you read?"

"No," and she immediately commenced again her examination of the page, for a b, as if that idea possessed her mind.

I took my seat now near a girl of about 15. She was sewing, and engaged in conversation with her companion, a girl two or three years older.

"How long have you been here?" said I.

"Five months," was the reply.

"Could you work before you came here?" "A little."

"I suppose it must be very pleasant to you here, where you can learn something every day."

"It is. I learn arithmetic, reading, and singing; and I sew."

"Have you any exercise."

"We walk every day, and work about the house."

Another of the pupils came up laughing, and asked the elder of the two girls to thread her needle, which she did with great rapidity, by putting the needle and end of the thread in her mouth.

A lady asked her why she did this-" Cannot you feel to do it with your fingers?" She smiled, and said, "Not nearly so quick."

They all looked cheerful and happy in their various employments, and where two or three were sitting together, were evidently quite interested in conversation. One was braiding straw very rapidly; and I noticed that she put her fingers into a small mug of water, which stood on a desk before her, without hesitating the least, or ever missing it.

One young woman, very intelligent, and interesting in her personal appearance, gave us an account of their various occupations and studies, and particularly the instructions in singing. "How do you take your lessons in singing?"

"The teacher describes to us what he wants us to learn. He is very particular about the sounds."

"Have you any notes, or printed rules, similar to your reading books?"

"No; we learn altogether by describing."

"Do all the pupils sing?"

"Yes, I think every one does."

"Are you all fond of music ?"

“Oh, yes, we are very fond of it."

"Have you any exercise but walking?"

"We have none but working about the house."

"Have you regular hours for exercise and study ?"

"Yes, we go out at 8 o'clock, and again at half past 10, and walk."

From the teacher, I found that the hours occupied in study and work of various kinds, were about ten.

"Do you attend meeting?"

"Yes, at Park-Street."

The party with whom I came, now prepared to leave. We lingered for a few minutes around the piano, and then went down stairs. As we passed through the room, we saw the man at work upon his willow baskets; and beside him a boy, who was standing near a tub of water, tying up a small bundle of these willow twigs: just as we were passing through, he was pulling very hard upon one of these, with which he was tying up the rest; when suddenly snap! it went. "Oh dear!" said he, "Why Sam, how do you tie these?" "Why here!" said Samuel, "look here, I'll show you."

The boy turned round; and Samuel, taking up a handful of twigs, selected one of the best, and reached it out to him; but how to find it, was the difficulty. The boy stretched out hist hand, but did not come within a foot of it. Samuel began striking in every direction towards the boy, till he hit him, when the boy caught hold of the twig, and went to work.

We then went to the next room, that led out of doors, where was a man behind a counter, mentioning the prices of the baskets that were on the counter for sale. While there, I heard the sound of the violin, as though the player was coming down stairs. I looked again into the other room; just as I got to the door, Samuel called out, "Halloo, Joe! give us a touch of Yankee Doodle."

"Oh, I can't," said Joseph.

"Oh yes, just a bit."

"Oh no, it wo'nt do,-it wo'nt do," said Joseph again.

The three came on, groping their way to the door. They supposed it was open, I thought; for the one who came first, went bump against it, while the two others came staggering against him. "Hold on a bit," said he, "let's get the door open; for we can't go through that, you know." They stepped back, that Joseph might open the door, and then went, in great glee, dancing in a singular, groping manner across the yard to the house, lifting their feet high, that they might not stumble and fall.

They entered the door of the house cheerful and happy; and we went home, sympathizing with them in the loss of sight,

the source of such valued enjoyments and privileges,-yet rejoicing in the munificent provisions of benevolence for dispelling, in part at least, the darkness which has hitherto rested upon their path, by opening to them such sources of happiness. and improvement.

[We have procured, and we insert here, a specimen of the kind of printing used for the blind, which is alluded to, in the foregoing description. Perhaps our readers will be interested in seeing it, and in trying their skill at reading with the fingers. The pupils read books printed in this way, by merely passing the finger over the lines, without difficulty, and apparently without stopping to spell the words. The case is a wonderful example of the increased sensibility of the remaining senses, when one is gone.—EDS.]

THE SUMMARY.

To the Editors of the Religious Magazine.
GENTLEMEN,

The following resolutions were pre-
sented at a late Temperance Conven-
tion. It was not proposed that they
should be seriously acted upon, and
they were withdrawn by the mover.
As they may, however, interest your
readers, and have not yet appeared in
print, I send you a copy,
RESOLVED,

That in the opinion of this Convention, the company of wholesale counterfeiters recently brought to justice in Canada, were more guilty, in manufacturing and distributing counterfeit money in large quantities, than their subordinate agents were, in circulating it in retail, throughout the community-and this for the following reasons:

1. They sinned on a much greater scale. This establishment was the corrupt fountain, from which the streams, spreading all over our country, were supplied. The injury done by any one passer of the money, was comparatively limited.

2. They sinned against greater light. Shrewd and intelligent men, they were capable of looking over the whole country, and understanding the immense extent of the injury they were doing.

3. They led others to sin, by their and appearance respectable, they gave example. Wealthy, and in manners, apparent respectability to crime, and sustained and encouraged inferiors, who might otherwise not have been lost to all sense of shame.

RESOLVED,

That in the opinion of this Convention, these wholesale dealers in counterfeit money, were entirely inexcusable; for,

1. It was no excuse for them to say, that all their property was vested in their establishment, and that their business was their whole living. Men have no right to acquire property, or even to get a living by bringing injury and suffering upon others.

2. It was no excuse for them to say, that they themselves did not pass off any of the bad money they made. They knew what was its destination,

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