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said they would not stay in the school it he did. I promptly tuKl them
that they knew w lie re the door was. but when the [)arcnts wrote me
a respectful lcltcr ho^inij that their children should not bo compelled
to lose ca^tc. I took the poor little fellow out in the hall and taught liim
by himself until he i^ot tired of it.
W o open or close with Scripture recitation and prayer, ami so far
I have not Iicard ot any objection on the part of the parents. Fre
PUPILS IN THE MUSCAT SCHOOL.
quentiy also they are taken into the chapel for singing, of which they
are quite fond.
Our numbers are nothing of which to boast, averaging only be
tween eleven and twelve for the past month. After the month of fast
ing, Ramadhan, is over, we will make a special effort to get more
Mohammetlan boys. Soon, too. we hope to move the school out of our
own house into its own building, and this should prove an added attrac
tion. The present is still the clay of small things but there is no going-
backwards and we expect to succeed.
The picture shown was taken a few months ago ancl is worth de
scribing as showing what a mixture we have. In the center are our
two Christian boys, one from our colporteur^ family ancl the other the
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