e year round. We live where we can
see the snow on the range of the Rocky Mountains all summer. We
have a little shepherd dog that eats candy. We like YOUNG PEOPLE
very much, and watch eagerly for its coming. I am eleven years
old, and Susie is ten.

CLARA AND SUSIE J.

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OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

We have a great many pets. We have a nice gray mare and a pony,
both named Nell, and a little colt a week old that we call
Cyclone. He is a cunning little fellow, and pretends to eat hay
like his mother. We have lots of chickens of all kinds. I have
some little white bantams, and my brother has some game bantams.
My oldest brother keeps fancy chickens.

S. V. B.

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PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA.

I read the letter of Arthur N. T. about gophers. They are very
numerous where I live. I kill them sometimes, but they are very
shy. I have a large gray cat that catches a great many of them.
The wild flowers bloom here about the first of March. I take YOUNG
PEOPLE, and like it very much. I learn lots of things from it,
too. I live so far away that I do not get it till almost two weeks
after it is published.

O. A. H.

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WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT.

I found a great number of flowers in May, but I do not think you
will print my list of names, for mamma says it is too long, and
would take up too much space in YOUNG PEOPLE. One day when I was
hunting for flowers in the woods, I found a turtle marked "L. E.
1816."

HARRY H. M.

We are pleased to see that you take such an interest in botany, for it
is a beautiful study, but as your list contains the names of
thirty-seven different flowers, it is a little too long to print,
especially as many of them are given in the paper on "Easy Botany," in
No. 29.

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LAREDO, TEXAS.

I live 'way out on the Rio Grande. I like to read the letters in
YOUNG PEOPLE. I have two pet pigeons, one blue and one white. I
would like to know how to catch and tame birds. My kite, which you
told me how to make, was a success.

WILLIAM C.

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TROY, OHIO.

I had a water turtle that I wanted to pet. I kept it in a bucket
of water, and it would swim round and rou