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I would like to exchange pressed wild flowers with some little
girl living in the East. I would like some small bouquets for a
scrap-book. We have a great variety of beautiful wild flowers
here. I have one sister and two brothers. My pet is a sheep. She
will leave the herd to come to me. She eats bread, and tobacco
too, when the shepherd gives it to her. Her name is Susie.

MABEL SHARP,
Buchanan, Fresno County, California.

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NEW YORK CITY.

I am a great admirer of Shakspeare. I have just finished reading
_Macbeth_. I have seen Edwin Booth play Hamlet. My mother has read
aloud to me _King Richard III_. and many others of these plays. I
am also very fond of history. I first read _Peter Parley's
Universal History_, next Dickens's _Child's History of England_,
and since many other books of historical tales. I am now reading
Guizot's _Popular History of France_. There are six large volumes,
and I have finished the third volume to-day.

I think you will be interested to hear about my Bible. It is the
elegant "Illuminated Bible" which was "published by Harper &
Brothers, 82 Cliff Street," just before the fire, which destroyed
all the plates of "sixteen hundred historical engravings." I read
in it every Sunday, and almost every morning. I have read the Old
Testament in course to the end of Chronicles, and I am pretty
familiar with the rest of the Bible.

I was paralyzed when I was sixteen months old, and have not the
use of my right hand. As yet I can not write well with my left. I
am twelve years old.

S. CASSIUS E.

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JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

My sister Gertie and I had each a small turtle. They were kept in
a glass globe in the house all winter, and about a week ago we put
them out in the yard in a large pan. To-day, when I went out to
see them, mine was dead. Can anyone tell me what was the matter
with it? They both had plenty of raw meat and earth-worms. The
water was changed every day, and there were large stones for them
to crawl up upon. We put the other turtle back in the glass globe
in the house.

MAMIE E.

Turtles prefer to bury themselves in the mud, and sleep all winter.
Perhaps had you allowed your turtle to follo