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the Government, in many places where there are Mission Girls' Schools. Therefore the future one will not be in any way rival to the existing Mission Girls' School here.

"You, Gentlemen, Residents of the Town and Samasthanam of Bobbili, have already, with great kindness and affection towards me, been forming a Public Park after my name by public subscriptions. The roads, paths and compound walls of the Park are fast approaching their completion. Now, Gentlemen, let me take this opportunity to thank you very much for laying a Public Park in memory of the present occasion. I hope it will be a splendid place for you all to enjoy yourselves in in the evenings after the day's labour.

"I am sure that you all will be more pleased to hear what I am going to say now. It may be somewhat praising myself, but unless I should tell you, it cannot be known to you at all. In my youth, i.e., when I was about