all her
might. She is now curled up in my hat, fast asleep. I have two
carrier-doves for pets besides.

I sent Carrie Harding, of Freeport, Illinois, some pressed flowers
quite a long time ago, but I have not heard whether she received
them or not.

HARRY H. M.

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ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN.

I am nine years old. I have a great many dolls--sixteen in all. I
have a little baby brother, and I have two canaries, and a cat
named Muggins. I did have one named Snow, but one morning all of a
sudden he disappeared, and has never been found.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, especially the story of "Claudine's
Doves." I wonder if Claudine is alive yet, and lives in Paris?

My YOUNG PEOPLE comes every Thursday, and I can hardly wait for
it.

GRACE M. D.

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

I live in Summerside. Our house is very near the water. There is
an island in our bay, and we go there sometimes. I have a little
garden, with some lovely black pansies and other flowers growing
in it. My sister has a little white rabbit.

ELLIE G.

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GRAFTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

I don't know what I would do now without my YOUNG PEOPLE. I have
taken it ever since it was published, and I hope I will always get
it. Of all the long stories, I like "The Moral Pirates" best, but
I like the others too.

I love to read about the pets the little girls and boys write
about in the Post-office Box. I have some too. I believe I like my
ducks the best. I have two old ones and ten young ones. I hope
Bessie Maynard will stay at Old Orchard Beach a good while, and
write some more letters to her doll. When I go away from home I
always take my doll with me. I have a little sister Mabel, but she
is only four years old. She likes the pictures in YOUNG PEOPLE
better than the stories. I am almost nine, and I can read in the
Fourth Reader.

CLOYD D. B.

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Middletown, New York.

I send a recipe to the chemists' club, which, if not new to the
club, may be to many readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

_Metal Tree._--A bar of pure zinc two and a half inches long and
three-eighths of an inch in diameter; ten cents' worth of sugar of