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IT is a great blessing to the blind that they generally have a correct ear for music, and can learn to sing and play as well as those who can see to read the notes. The sense of feeling, as well as of hearing, becomes very acute; and in this way they are able to read from letters which we might finger for a long time without finding their meaning. There was a boy at the Asylum in Philadelphia who was deaf and dumb as well as blind, and yet he learned how to make pitchers and baskets, and a variety of other articles, with wire and beads.