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Show in the village church an appeal in behalf of Obookiah, a poor waif from the Hawaiian Islands, who had found his way to the steps of Yale College, and manifested such eagerness to be educated and sent back to teach his own countrymen, that a fund was raised, and he, with four or five other natives, was placed at school in Cornwall, Connecticut. The young people of Bozrahville, where Mr. Dodge's family then resided, had little money to contribute ; but WiUiam proposed to a few companions to raise potatoes for this missionary fund. He obtained his father's permission to cultivate a piece of swamp land near by. The boys took their spare time to get the soil in good condition, and their small stock of pocket-money to buy potatoes for planting. The season proved unusually dry and most crops suffered ; but their industrious tilling and damp soil produced a large return, and the boys increased their profits by delivering |