YORK.

I am having a very nice time up here among the Catskills. I go
fishing very often, and always have very good luck. I am also
hunting for birds' eggs, and have collected a large number.

We are entirely surrounded by the mountains, one of which I have
already ascended, and was rewarded by a beautiful view of the
surrounding country.

Through exchange with the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE I have received
a great many eggs. I hope all the correspondents are enjoying
their vacation as well as I am mine.

I. QUACKENBOSS.

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Since I wrote to YOUNG PEOPLE I have received and exchanged so
many specimens! I am delighted. Last week my papa helped me, and
we sent twenty-three boxes of ocean curiosities to different parts
of the United States.

I have all sorts of beautiful things. One of them is a live bat
that is so tame that he will eat from my hand, and does not offer
to fly away.

I get something new nearly every day from some of the subscribers
of YOUNG PEOPLE. I think it is the nicest paper I ever saw.

"WEE TOT" BRAINARD.

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WRIGHTS, CALIFORNIA.

I am eleven years old, and I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Sometimes we are above the clouds. When it is clear, we can see
the bay, and the ships coming in.

There are deep gulches here, full of trees and moss and fern.
Wild-cats, wolves, and California lions live here, and they often
steal our chickens. We dare not go far from the house at night.
From this you would think that it is a very wild country, but it
is not, and there are a great many people living here. The animals
live in the gulches, and only come out at night when we are
asleep.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number.

JESSIE N.

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VIENNA, NEW JERSEY.

I had a little kitten. I stroked it one day, and it followed me
down to an ash-barrel, where it went smelling round as if it was
hungry. Then I went up the street a little way to where a girl was
sweeping, and I asked her if it was her kitten. She said it was,
but she was going to give it away. I asked her to give it to me,
and she did. Then I took it home, and fed it on milk. As soon as I
brought