LIST OF PUPILS,

In the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, Dec. 31, 1832.

PUPILS SUPPORTED BY THE SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF

Remaining in the Asylum, December 31, 1832,

87

15

72

15

87

54 00

$3.00
3 00

$77 50

3 00

5 00

5 00

3 00

22.00

Editors of the New-York Courier and Enquirer, their paper, $10 00

New-York Commercial Advertiser,

66

Weekly Messenger,

Leon Vaysse, 1 spy-glass,

By S. W. Benedict, 3 pieces cotton sheeting,

10 00

3.00

250

6 00

66

3 do

calico,

From Jared L. Moore, specimens for the Cabinet,

66

66

Andrew Seymour,

Milliken,

SPECIMENS OF UNCORRECTED ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS.

By a young man, 17 years of age.

THE INDIANWOMEN AND THE BOYS.

I stayed in my father's house. He went to the small town of Nelson, Madison Co. N. Y. He worked in his friend's field which is near the town. I disliked myself to stay in my father's house, but I preferred to go to some boys who were playing with balls in the afternoon. We saw two indian women coming to my friend's house, and they bought a new basket. The indian women left the house. I saw the boys who mocked them. I imitated them and I mocked the indian women who were very miserable. I saw the boys who threw many stones at them. One of the indian women, who was old, reproved them, but they mocked her and laughed at her. One of the boys threw a club at her head which was wounded. I saw a black man come to them and he said to the boys that three indian men were coming toward the boys and they disbanded fast away, but I ran to my friend's house. I discovered the indian men coming to the indian women. They asked them, what they were sorry for. They said to the indian men what the boys had done. They were very angry and they conversed with each other and went away. I went and met my father in the evening going to his house. I thought myself that I was bad for I had mocked the indian women.

By a lad 14 years of age.

A STORY OF ELIJAH.

Elijah was a very good man and a prophet. He lived many years before Christ. God told Elijah to go to reprove Ahab who was a king of the Israelites. Elijah obeyed God and went to Ahab and reproved him, for his tempting many people to worship idols, and Ahab was angry at him Elijah came and told God that Ahab refused to repent and was very angry at him. God told him to go to reprove Ahab again. Elijah went to Ahab and reproved him who was angry at him, and he wished to kill him. But God preserved Elijah. Elijah could not convert Ahab who did not repent. He came again and he told God that Ahab refused to repent, and was indignant at Ahab. God told Elijah that he would give him strength, and he would tell the clouds not to come up to rain. Elijah went again to Ahab and reproved him, but he refused to repent. Elijah told the clouds not to come up to rain. After several weeks, the people had no food, and there was a famine.

Elijah was hungry, and he told God that he wished to have food, and he told him to go and hide by a brook near Jordan. The ravens fed Elijah with flesh and bread in the morning and evening, and he drank of the brook. Ahab knew that Elijah had told the clouds not to come up to rain, and he called his soldiers to search for Elijah, and they searched for him, but they could not find him. At length there was no water in the brook, which was very dry. Elijah was thirsty and hungry, and he told God, "I want some food," and he told him to go to the house of a woman. Elijah went from Jordan to the house, and he saw the woman picking some sticks. While she was picking them, she thought that she would be hungry and she would die. Elijah told the woman that he wanted to have some water. She said, "there is a well in the house." She went to it, and filled a mug with water and gave him it and he drank it. Then he told the woman that he wanted to eat some food. She told him that she had no food, except a little flour and she could not give him it, and he told her that God would give her bread, if she would give him it. She believed what he said. She went to the barrel, and took the flour from it and she made bread and gave it to Elijah who ate it. Then he said to her, "do you want some bread," and she said, yes sir. He told her to make bread, and she said to him, "I have taken all the flour from the barrel in which there is no flour." Elijah told the woman to go and see. She went to the barrel and saw flour in it and was surprised at the increasing of the flour. Elijah lived with the woman for several months. The woman's son died, and she was very sorry for it. Elijah came unto her and saw her crying and pitied her, and he said unto her, "why do you cry" and she said that her son had died. He said unto her "where is your son"? She said, he lay on a bed. He went to it and saw him, and took the boy from the bed to a room, and prayed to God to give him life. Then the boy rose, and he led him to the woman, and she saw her son alive, and she embraced him. Elijah left the house, and he went to Ahab, and Ahab knew that he had told the clouds not to come up to rain. He said to him, "why have you told the clouds not to come up?" Elijah said "because I thrice reproved you" but you refused to repent." Elijah told Ahab that he should go to a mountain with his army, the day afterwards. Ahab said to Elijah “I shall call the false prophets to come to the mountain." He left him, and went to the city and after a day, Ahab went with the false prophets to the mountain and Elijah assembled the false prophets and he built an altar. They killed a sheep or cow or ox, and put it on the altar which was very dry, but they did not make a fire, and they prayed to him to make the fire for several hours, but he could not make the fire. Elijah said, it proved that Baal could not do so. He told the false prophets to kill a cow, or an ox, and put it on the altar which was very wet, and Elijah prayed to God to make a fire. Soon God made a large fire upon the altar which