THIRD GRADE LETTER
1 hive a fourth reader and English
language a.id Arithmetic and c.eog
rupay a ul spelling and writing lx>ok.
Most of the children they can
speaking English language. W e are
giad to have a letter from your school
.Some not much good speaking
English language. We are glad to
hav e a letter from your school.
1 have a good teacher in Unalakleet
And i should like know your school
too in Uaulakieet school, they have
ttiree rooms.
And three teacher in one school.
My sister she is school teacher too
And we have a shop. And girls
they shop .it Friday day in school
room. And the boys go to
shop at Friday day They im.kt any
kind of things, and the girls sewing
and clean the school room And on
Saturday we ne v er go to school.
We just bring some wood tor our
home And fishing Torn-* od for our
dogs And on Suuda\ w e do noth
ing just play out door foot hall play
take, hop,andjumpi -g.and we goto
church at morning about half pass
ten. And the children go to the Sun
day school, at half pass eleven. And
our preachers name is Mr. Anderson,
he pre ich at morning half pass ten.
And at night we go to church again
at seven o'clock our teacher pleach
at night seve i o’clock. In Unalakleet
their are all Eskimo hut some of a
white men. Most of the people they
have a dog teams i i unalakleet.
And my papa he get a dog team
too Every days the children go to
school, only 5 days go to school in
one week. Plenty of children they
go to school. » p too 4 year old. and
otir school is made out of lumber.
In Mr Van Ness school they are 15
children. May he more then 25 chil
dren go school, localise the people
go fishing and never go to school.
That is all I know al>out
unalakleet children And otir teacher
he made a news paper too in
Unalakleet. In Unalakleet Alaska
most of the houses are clean, they
have know ice houses they have a
house, made out of trees, and wood
but not with old broad and I can uame
the children, Mary and Marion and!
Jessie and Alice and Ida and Gabriel
Johnnie and Edwin and Charley Ole
Icould’t put them name good, but
I put some few children name, that
is all I know. Vour New friend
Newman Rock
MoR • LINCOLN LESS VERGIL
persuasively than Linclon.His cour
age, which staked all. dared all, and
stood like rock when a great cause
w is involved, yet was ever ready to
compromise, to wink at delinquencies
and pass by affronts in small matters;
his proper ambition, which led him
to seek honorable preferment, yet
never betrayed him into mere sel
fishness; his heroic modesty ;his hum
or — will enrich any mind, young or
old,that studies them.
vbove all, for tlie American, Lin
coln ; i tea mated American democra
cy Its technic will differ from decade
to decade, specifically it will now seek
one o’>je< et and now another; but its
enduring spirit is embodied in his
life and utterances.
'■schools do teach something of
Liucolu-u vague sketch and smatter
ing of him. it is high, time he became
a st »p’e of American education. His
collected writings and speechs not
only contain the so d of tlie American
story, but are highly worth reading
simply as literature—as the picture
of a mind slowly evolving out of ap
parent commonplace into supreme
greatness, and so leading a people
through a great crisis.
There should be at least one year of
Lincoln in every American high
school. ”