, and
after waiting a moment the parrot said, "What?" as if to remind
her to answer him. He talks mostly in Spanish, but has learned a
good many English words since he came to this country. He laughs
so loud sometimes that a person can not talk in the room with him.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much indeed. My brother was interested in
"Old Times in the Colonies," and hopes there will be some more
Indian stories.

OLIVE R.

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PINEVILLE, MISSOURI.

I send you my brother's way of making beautiful soap-bubbles: Take
a basin of either warm or cold water, and mix with it a quantity
of country-made soap. Then take a piece of hollow pumpkin vine
about a foot long, and place one end of it in the basin and one in
the mouth, and blow.

WROTON K.

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WHITEHALL, ILLINOIS.

I take HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is the best paper
published.

I have some minnows which I feed on bits of bread and meat. They
are so tame that when I go to feed them, they will come up and eat
from my fingers.

NORMAN W. J.

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MOBERLY, MISSOURI.

We have a big dog named Jack. He is the biggest dog in town. He
weighs over one hundred pounds, and he is very intelligent.

Mamma found a queer worm the other day. Its eyes were green, and
it was green all over. It had yellow bunches on its back with
prickles on them, and on its sides were blue spots. Papa took it
down town, but nobody knew what it was. I wish some correspondent
could tell me its name.

MAGGIE P. B.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I have three turtles. The smallest one I can cover with a
twenty-five-cent piece. It sometimes stays under water over
thirteen minutes.

I would like to tell Jessie B., whose letter was in No. 33, that
she must put her turtle in water deep enough to half cover it; and
when she feeds it, she must put one end of the worm in the water,
and whenever the turtle snaps for it, she must lift it up, until,
after a while, the turtle will take it from her hand.

I like the story of "The Moral Pirates" the best of all. I am ten
years old.

W. G.

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MOUNT PLEASANT, NEW