NA.

Reading in YOUNG PEOPLE about the fight between the _Constitution_
and the _Guerriere_, I thought I would tell you about a relic I
have. It is a cross made of the wood of the _Constitution_, which
was presented to my father by Miss Bainbridge, a daughter of
Commodore Bainbridge, the commander of the _Constitution_ after
Captain Hull retired.

I have been a constant reader of the delightful little paper ever
since Christmas. I am ten years old, but I have never made but two
trips away from my Southern home.

MABEL S.

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OWANECO, ILLINOIS.

I am nine years old. I live one mile from town. We milk six cows,
and I help do the milking.

I have a nice pet lamb. Her name is Fannie. A kind old man gave
her to me when she was a little tiny thing. She was a year old
last spring. I sold her fleece in the spring for forty-five cents
a pound. It weighed five pounds. Papa let me keep all the money,
and I am going to buy another sheep with it.

I helped papa all through haying. He has a new hay derrick, and I
rode a horse and worked the derrick. The horse is twenty-five
years old, and his name is General.

I am visiting Aunt Em now, but I am going to start to school next
week. I like YOUNG PEOPLE so much!

MINNIE M. L.

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DOWNIEVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

I live up in the mountains of Sierra County. My papa is editor of
a newspaper here, and my little brother, ten years old, folds the
papers for papa every Thursday night. Papa gave me a nice French
kid doll. She can turn her head, and has joints.

I have two brothers and a sister younger than myself. We all like
to receive YOUNG PEOPLE and to look at the pictures. I liked "The
Moral Pirates" very much, and would not mind being such a pirate
myself.

My home is on the famous Yuba River, but its current is too rapid
for boats of any kind.

ALTIE V.

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HOUSTON, TEXAS.

I want to know why "the two Eds" did not try to eat on the cars? I
am six years old.

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SAM MCI.

I am a lover of YOUNG PEOPLE, and in common with others have
exchanged specimens with many of the subscribers. A young lady of
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvan