One of them kicked me on the hip, but
did not hurt me very much. I wish some little girl would send a
nice recipe for making cookies.

NELLIE E. O.

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YONKERS, NEW YORK.

I have read every number of YOUNG PEOPLE, from the first to the
last one published. I enjoy reading the letters sent by the
correspondents, and I like to read all the recipes for candy and
cake. During vacation I am going to try them all. I have a pet
canary-bird, which was a birthday gift.

I am pressing a few leaves that I gathered on the Palisades, and I
am going to press a good many this summer. When they are ready, I
shall try to exchange with some little girl.

EDITH L. G.

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ST. HENRYS, OHIO.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE better than any other paper I have ever taken.

I have a pet 'coon, a squirrel, a canary, a dog, and two cats. And
I have a large doll. She is three feet and eight inches tall. Her
name is Gervaise. I got her at the Centennial Exhibition.

I love to read the letters in the Post-office Box.

I went fishing this spring for the first time, and caught six
fish. I am eleven years old, and now in the summer I am not going
to school.

Will any little girl send me a recipe for cream candy?

FLORA B.

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OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI.

I am a little girl six years old, and I can not write very well
yet. I do not go to school, but mamma teaches me at home. I like
YOUNG PEOPLE so much! I have a little dog named Snip. I live in
the South, and it is pretty warm here now.

Two mocking-birds have a nest and four little baby birds in a
rose-bush near our sitting-room window.

Mamma and I are going to Michigan in a few weeks to see my grandma
and grandpa. My papa is a preacher. I have no brother or sister.

BESSIE M. MCL.

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BELLE PLAINE, IOWA.

Captain William Eaton, the subject of the sketch, "An American
Soldier of Fortune," in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 34, was my mother's
great-uncle on her father's side. So on her mother's side was
Colonel William Knowlton.

CORA F.

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CEDAR FALLS, IOWA.

I thought I would write about my pets. They are two old cats,
t