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Peter on a troop ship in South Africa. We trust that they all are
with their old master.
Many, though not all of the boys, have kept up a scattering1
correspondence with me. and I have a fairly good idea of what is
happening to them. At first we found positions for them as do-

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mestic servants in Christian families, where two of them still are.
But most of them, considered the world at large too attractive, and
are now pretty well scattered. A favorite position for them to aspire
to was that of a deckhand on an English gunboat. The company
of some of their own people, the life and the stir were.what they
liked, and the strict discipline I presume was very good for them.