Next we were given a. little amusement! Two small boys were set to a contest—putting the pegs of different colours into their proper places on a board hung on the wall. The one who placed them all first ]did not: win the game, however, was found he had' two pegs in [the wrong colour. He was told, and lery quickly he found his mistake and set it right. All this by feel.
After this we were led across the large playground: You should see them walking on stilts, or, playing
sadly appropriate!. going _quite high on the swing, or playing on the Indder-trapeze, and maypole swings.
Ta the large building we note en were shown boys reading quite fast from Braille (written by some of {the boys in the school), others writing dictation on a sort of Braille machine, or having lessons in num bers from a blind teacher. One young man can even take dictation fon the typewriter if one speaks to] him in English, In one dormitory we noticed a ally-looking little fellow about four! years of age. I asked him what he called the toy he held in his hand fand his reply was so whispered 1 could not make-it out. Yet when ater he came up on the platform fin the Hall to sing "Home Sweet} Home" he had a voice a man might!
Ihave been proud.of! Poor little! baby! This School does indeed seem ike home' to him. His parents are [both dead and he was left to wander! in the streets, uncared for and unfed, as he was useless, being blind, At last someone told Afr. Woods he was lying practically dead in an old Temple, s0 a woman was sent out to fetch inthe poor little waif. For several weeks he had to be carefully] tended in the hospital, but now ho is a most healthy, sturdy little! specimen, with great possibilities of fof usefulness before him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.