In the school described the scholars were mostly women and girls, who sat on the bare earthen floor. Some twenty of them came, and the teacher had the assistance of an old Chinese preacher. Owing to -the arious stages at which the scholars were in their ability to read, it was difficult to arrange them into classes. They all liked to be together. Those who could read a little shouted th bit aloud from the lesson sheets containing simple sentences. To teach the others the two teachers went round drilling individuals in "the thousand characters" to which Chi-rose has been reduced for practical everyday. purposes. Some others found the romanized script much easier to follow.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.