t ones. He learned it from a little girl when he was
travelling in Oregon, and I think a good many little readers of
YOUNG PEOPLE might be pleased with it. This is the way:
close your hand, and point out the knuckle of the forefinger for
January, and the depression between that and the middle knuckle for
February. The middle knuckle designates March, and the next
depression April; and so on to the small knuckle, which stands for
July. Then go back to the forefinger for August, and proceed as
before until all the months are named. It will be found that all
the short ones fall between the fingers, while the knuckles stand
for the long ones.

PHEBE C. BROWN.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I want to tell you about a young alligator and a water turtle papa
had. He kept the turtle in the cellar, and the alligator in an
earthen tank; but when it came winter he put that in the cellar
too, in a tight box with air-holes. Some time afterward he went to
look at the turtle and the alligator, and they had both
disappeared. Where do you think they could have gone?

PUSS.

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DIXON SPRING, TENNESSEE, _February 18_.

I am a subscriber to YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much.
I am ten years old. The creeks are in the way, so I can not go to
school now, but I will go in the spring. Some of our flowers are in
full bloom, and the weather is very pleasant. But we had a
snow-storm last week, and I enjoyed it so much!

FANNIE M. YOUNG.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I know some little girls who live in the country. They set a little
table in the yard, and put on it tin dishes with chicken food in
them. Then they ring a toy bell, and the chickens have learned to
come and stand round the table and eat. If a chicken hops on the
table, it is not allowed to eat any more, and in this way they are
taught to behave very nicely.

SADIE.

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DECORAH, IOWA.

I am a little Norwegian girl, though I was born in America. I am
twelve years old. Not all the Norwegian ships in which Leif
Ericsson and his company sailed to America were as small as the one
described in "Ships Past and Present," in YOUNG PEOPLE No.