ays ago, and I saw a woodchuck go in
a hole. Having heard that they had a great deal of curiosity, I
hid behind a heap of dirt real close to the hole, and in a minute
out the woodchuck came to get a better look at me. Just then Dick,
a little dog, came scampering up, ran by the hole, turned round,
and crept softly back and stopped, watching, with eyes and ears on
the alert. But I made a noise, so the woodchuck did not come out
again.

Once Dick was watching on the top of a steep bank, and a great big
woodchuck stuck its head out of a hole. Dick grabbed it, and
together they rolled to the bottom of the bank, where, if somebody
had not killed the woodchuck, Dick would have had the worst of the
fight, as he was the smallest.

Are ground-squirrels, chipmunks, and gophers the same kind of
animals?

I have a barrel sunk in the ground, with cold water running in and
out, and about two hundred minnows in it. Please tell me something
good to feed them on.

SAMUEL J.

The ground-squirrel and chipmunk are the same animal, but the gopher, or
Canada pouched rat, belongs to a different family.--Feed your minnows by
throwing bread-crumbs, and flies, and other small insects on the surface
of the water.

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CHIMACUM VALLEY, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

I live on a farm. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is a very
nice little paper.

I have had the rheumatism since Christmas so bad that I could not
walk nor turn myself in bed. Do you know what will get me well? I
am thirteen years old.

A lady gave me eight ducks' eggs. I set them under a hen, and now
I have five little ducks. The old hen looks so frightened when her
little ones go swimming in a pan of water! I suppose she thinks
they are strange chickens. I have a dog named Prince. He knows so
much he comes very near talking. Whenever I go away and come back,
he will pick up a stick in his mouth and run toward me. I have a
hen with nine little chicks. Whenever they get hungry, the mamma
hen will come to the door of the house and cluck. My father milks
twenty-eight cows. They give a bucket of milk apiece.

ARTHUR S. R.

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YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA.

I live in Philadelphia, but it is so hot there in the summer that
we decid