Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 Part 7

I have a pet chicken named Mary. She will walk a rope, and swing in a little swing I made for her.

ALFRED J. H.

PAXTON, ILLINOIS.

I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like to read the letters from the little folks. I am ten years old, and am in the fourth room and "A" cla.s.s at school.

I had a velocipede, but it is broken. I have a horse and a saddle and bridle, and I ride a good deal.

My little sister is three years old, and I am making a play-house for her. She bit my ear so hard I had to cry. Mamma asked her what made her bite brother's ear. She said, "Brother hurt his ear on my teeth."

RITCHEY M. K.

ARROW ROCK, MISSOURI.

In the hot weather we keep our doors open at night, and one night a little opossum got in, and in the morning we found it curled up in papa's hat. I kept it for a few days, but once when I went away it ran off. I am seven years old.

RIDLEY MCL.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

YOUNG PEOPLE comes every week, and I a.s.sure you it receives a warm welcome.

We have two little pets. Their names are Roly and Poly. Roly is a little Skye terrier, and Poly is a kitten, which travelled here from "down East." They eat, drink, sleep, and, I am sorry to say, cry together, for they are both very sensitive. They object strongly to being shut up at night, and protest against it loudly.

I am thirteen years old, and I wear spectacles.

J. O.

WALLA WALLA, WAs.h.i.+NGTON TERRITORY.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE ever since the first number, and I find it very interesting. I was born in this Territory, but I have been to San Francisco and down the Pacific coast as far as Santa Barbara, where I remained six months with my mother and brother and sister. Sometimes in warm weather we take a trip to the Blue Mountains, and we have picnics and fis.h.i.+ng parties. I am eleven years old.

FANNIE MINNIE B.

ADAMS, WISCONSIN.

I am ten years old. I live in the country, near a beautiful lake called Lake Pleasant. I often have a boat-ride on it. The hills are quite high around the lake.

I live with my grandpa and grandma, and I go to school in an old yellow school-house that has stood for thirty years. We are going to have a nice new brick school-house soon, but I do not like to have the dear old house torn down, as it is the same one my mamma went to school in.

We have two hundred sheep. I have a pet lamb that will leave the flock when I call it. Its name is d.i.c.kie.

NORA P.

RANDALL, NEW YORK.

I am eleven years old. I have not any pets now, but I had two. One was a little dog named f.a.n.n.y. It would draw a little sleigh with a milk-pail on it, and pull me on the ice when I had my skates on.

The other was a little kitten that would jump and take a piece of meat out of my hand when I held it over my head.

GEORGE W. L.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

I am eleven years old. I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I often go out to the Spanish fort. There is a band of music there every evening, and every Sat.u.r.day it is there all day. There are two cannon which have been in the fort ever since 1718. I have two pet kittens that follow me everywhere.

CHARLIE N. W.

I have a collection of stamps, and would gladly exchange with some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

EDDIE DE LIMA, care of D. A. de Lima & Co., 68 William St., New York City.

I would like to exchange postmarks of the United States or Canada with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

A. W. RUSSELL, P. O. Box 109, Brookfield, Madison County, New York.

I would be glad to exchange postage stamps with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

HARRY GUSTIN, Bay City, Michigan.

I have a few foreign coins which I should like to exchange for rare postage stamps. They are small French coins, Swiss, English, Prussian, German, and Italian, copper and nickel. Some of them I do not know. They look like silver, but I think they are only German silver.

EUGENE E. PETTEE, 11 Prospect Street, Fall River, Ma.s.sachusetts.

I have a collection of sh.e.l.ls, minerals, postmarks, coins, and woods. I have also a collection of about eleven hundred and twenty-five stamps, all different kinds, and I would like to exchange stamps with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.