rownlow Harrison, a bright little boy who had spent a few years in the school for the deaf and dumb, was watching with great earnestness for his father, who was to fetch him home for the summer vacation. Brownlow had made unusual progress during the last half-year; this he himself knew, and made him intensely anxious that his younger brother, who was also deaf and dumb, should be admitted as a pupil in the Institution.
Brownlow himself at once wrote to the Committee as follows:—"When I was at home I was ignorant, and I don't know about God; but I am now taught about religion, and it is wonderful; I will be taught before I leave school. My dear brother cannot read, and he cannot understand; I wish he will come to school, for he don't know about God and angels, and all things good or bad. I am afraid he will grow wicked if he is not taught. I will feel thankful to the gentlemen to send my deaf brother to school."
FRANCIS CARTER, PRINTER,
IRON GATE WORKS,
DERBY.
Transcriber's Note:
In the anecdote entitled "[DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, AND LAME]," the character is named once as David and once as John in the original text. This discrepancy has not been changed.
Punctuation and alternative spellings have been retained as they appear in the original text.