Her eyes filled, and she exclaimed, "Yes, massa, we do tank de good Lord for bring de free--never can be too tankful." She said she had seven children present, and it made her feel happy to know that they were learning to read.

Another woman said, when she heard the children reading so finely, she wanted to "take de word's out of da mouts and put em in her own." In the morning, when she first entered the school house, she felt quite sick, but all the pleasant things she saw and heard, had made her well, and she added, "I tell you, me massa, it do my old heart good to come here." Another aged woman, who had grand-children in the school, said, when she saw what advantages the children enjoyed, she almost cried to think she was not a child too.
Besides these there were a number of adult men and women, whom curiosity or parental solicitude had brought together, and they were thronging about the windows and doors witnessing the various exercises with the deepest interest.

Among the rest was one old patriarch, who, anxious to bear some part however humble in the exercises of the occasion, walked to and fro among the children, with a six feet pole in his hand, to keep order.
These schools, and those examined at Parham, are under the general supervision of Mr.Charles Thwaites, an indefatigable and long tried friend of the negroes.
We here insert a valuable communication which we received from Mr.T.in reply to several queries addressed to him.

It will give further information relative to the schools.
_Mr.Charles Thwaites' Replies to Queries on Education in Antigua._ 1.

What has been your business for some years past in Antigua?
A superintendent of schools, and catechist to the negroes.
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