interesting me with the associations of home and family recolections
I will here give from my journal a discription written at the time of

My Sister Eunice
Teaching School.

I entered the school taught by my Sister Eunice at 1 o'clock
a^p^.m. Five hours I spent within its walls watching my sister
in the performance of her school duties and in perusing letters written
to her by my brother Asahel. Five years before when I last
beheld Eunice at our father's house she was only a child of twelve
years of age; but in the scene before me I now beheld her an
instructoress of youth. As I looked up^on^ her—my only sister
teaching the youth and showing accomplishments that grace the female
sex varied reflections passed through my mind and emotion of strong
affection moved me. There she appeared before me (only seventeen
years of age) adorned with youth modesty and loveliness

With a degree of admiration I gazed upon her and marked the
change five years had brought upon her ^produced^. Her spirit was ^blythe^ blithful
and her step as she moved among her pupils showed the energy
of youth

As if to call my mind more perfectly to the
recollections of home and past scenes Eunice with a cheerful grace
presented me with the bundle of letters from our brother Asahel
They were fifteen in number and addressed to my sister. As
I read them through they filled my soul with emotion and brought
as great a variety of feelings as the matter they contained. They
showed the cultivated mind and refined talents of a brother writing
to a sister with the purest spirit and deepest feeling for her
welfare. Such teachings as those to Eunice if followed by
the female youth would lead them by a thousand snares. The
name of Wilford was mentioned often. As I read I smiled and
wept & in my heart said O God protect my brothers my sister
my wife and my parents.

I left the School with my sister and together
we viewed the Colebrook landscapes as we walked along and conversed

interesting me with the associations of home and family recolections I will here give from my journal a discription written at the time of

My Sister Eunice Teaching School.

I entered the school taught by my Sister Eunice at 1 o'clock p.m. Five hours I spent within its walls watching my sister in the performance of her school duties and in perusing letters written to her by my brother Asahel. Five years before when I last beheld Eunice at our father's house she was only a child of twelve years of age; but in the scene before me I now beheld her an instructoress of youth. As I looked upon her—my only sister teaching the youth and showing accomplishments that grace the female sex varied reflections passed through my mind and emotion of strong affection moved me. There she appeared before me (only seventeen years of age) adorned with youth modesty and loveliness

With a degree of admiration I gazed upon her and marked the change five years had produced. Her spirit was blythe blithful and her step as she moved among her pupils showed the energy of youth

As if to call my mind more perfectly to the recollections of home and past scenes Eunice with a cheerful grace presented me with the bundle of letters from our brother Asahel They were fifteen in number and addressed to my sister. As I read them through they filled my soul with emotion and brought as great a variety of feelings as the matter they contained. They showed the cultivated mind and refined talents of a brother writing to a sister with the purest spirit and deepest feeling for her welfare. Such teachings as those to Eunice if followed by the female youth would lead them by a thousand snares. The name of Wilford was mentioned often. As I read I smiled and wept & in my heart said O God protect my brothers my sister my wife and my parents.

I left the School with my sister and together we viewed the Colebrook landscapes as we walked along and conversed