ers and took you. I am thirteen
years old.

Yours sincerely,

ART. R.

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MT. AUBURN, CINCINNATI, O.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I like your stories very much. I am a boy
seven years old. I do not go to school, but Mamma teaches me
with two little girls. I had a lovely Christmas. I got a
locomotive, a sword, a scarf, a marble game, a rolling-pin,
a box to keep my pens and pencils in, and some cards and
books for Christmas. I think you are the best book I ever
read. This is the first year I began to take you. I like the
"Brownies" best. Tell Mr. Palmer Cox to put "Brownies" in
every ST. NICHOLAS. Please don't forget to print my letter,
for I have written it all myself, and spelled it without any
help.

I had two kittys, and their names were Mitten and Topsy. We
gave away Mitten and kept Topsy, but after a while we lost
Topsy, and then we found another kitty, but she ran away. I
am sorry they went away, for I love kittys. Good-bye, dear
ST. NICHOLAS, I am so glad it is most time for you to come
again. Please don't forget to print my letter, for I love
you so much!

Your loving friend,

RALPH B. R.

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LEWISBURG, W. VA.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I have just finished reading the February
number, and I think that "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and
"George Washington" are splendid! I am a little girl ten
years old. Have taken you for four years.

I have ever so many uncles and aunts. One of my aunts sends
you to me.

Your loving reader,

DOTTIE M.

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WYOMING, DEL.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I have never written to you before, but I
love to read the letters others have sent you. You have been
coming to our house nearly three years, and we all look
anxiously for the 26th of the month, when you are due. You
are my own book. I pay for you with money I have earned
myself. My little sister wonders whenever