t time this spring
(April 15). I want to tell you about my pets. I have a dog named
Watch, and I love him ever so much. He is black and white. We have
a red and white calf. It butted me once, but I like it all the
same.

ARTIE F.

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YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA.

I am eight years old. Papa takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me, and I am
going to have it bound as mamma has her BAZAR. She did not have it
bound last year, for she sent it to Edinburgh to my aunt Annie. I
go to school every day, and like to go. One of our large
school-houses was burned down the other night. It cost about nine
thousand dollars, and nearly three hundred children went to school
there. We had a spelling match at my school just before Christmas,
and I beat. We have a mare named Nell, and a cow named Maud. We
had a pig named Aubrey Percival, but now we call him _Pork_.

CHARLIE P.

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ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN.

I am seven years old. Yesterday (April 14) I saw a butterfly in
our yard. It was a blue-black with light spots. I tried to catch
it, but couldn't. The same day I saw a bumble-bee. I have a
shepherd dog named Punch, and when I go anywhere, he always
squeals to go too. He is my best playmate, as I have no brothers
or sisters. I think the Post-office Box in YOUNG PEOPLE is very
interesting.

ROBERT E. C.

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NEVADA, MISSOURI.

My father is a harness-maker, and I help him morning and evening,
before and after school, and at night I read YOUNG PEOPLE. I saw
in No. 24 a little letter from Joseph D. asking how to tame wild
rabbits. My brother was out hunting one day, and his dog caught a
rabbit by the leg. The leg was broken, so my brother took some
pine splinters and cut them into pieces about two inches long and
a quarter of an inch wide, and bound them round the leg, and it
got well. He tamed the rabbit by reaching his hand into the cage
where he kept it, and rubbing it gently. It soon became so tame it
would eat out of his hand.

J. L. G. L.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I read a letter in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 13 from a boy who hatched a
little chicken by putting the egg in ashes. I wish he would tell
me how he kept the