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TROY, TENNESSEE.

My brother Clarence takes YOUNG PEOPLE. I enjoy it almost as much
as he does, and he says he couldn't do without it.

I have a doll with great blue eyes and light hair. Her name is
Dora. She is thirty inches high. Mamma dressed her in my own
lemon-colored lawn and blue sash. When papa gave Dora to me I
stood her by the side of my little sister Hallie, fourteen months
old, and they were the same height.

My home is near Reelfoot Lake, which is about twenty miles long
and seven wide. Papa says it was sunk there about 1811.

There are several mocking-birds tame enough to build in our yard
and raise young birds. The old ones sing all night when it is
moonlight. I am seven years old, and began school in September.

PEARL H.

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PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since No. 11, and I think it is a
splendid paper.

I have only one pet--a black cat named Nig. He is very cunning. He
will sit up as well as any squirrel. He never mews unless he wants
a drink, or to run out-of-doors. He tries hard to turn the door
knob himself, but has never succeeded.

MAMIE B.

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I have postage stamps I would like to exchange with the
correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE, if they will send me a list of the
stamps they would like, and of those they have to exchange.

ETTIE A. HOUSTON,
9 West Nineteenth Street, New York City.

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My papa has taken HARPER'S WEEKLY for twenty years, and I take
YOUNG PEOPLE. I like "Old Times in the Colonies" and "The Story of
the American Navy" the best. I have a collection of about one
hundred and fifty stamps, and would like to exchange with any
readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

CURTIS BISHOP,
P. O. Box 1093, New London, Connecticut.

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I have just begun to take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much. I
think "The Moral Pirates" ended splendidly.

If any boy would like to exchange postage stamps with me, I would
be much obliged if he would send me a list of his stamps, and I
will send one of mine in return.

C. F. MOSES,
Care of J. J. Cohen & Sons, Augusta, Georgia.

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