ed to spend a few weeks in this beautiful Californian
valley, camping out.

We travelled from Merced to this place in our own wagons, pitching
our tents every night. I like camp life very much, sleeping in
tents and eating in the open air. Sometimes we build a camp fire
in the evening, and all sit around it, telling stories and
singing. It is very warm in the daytime here, and cold at night;
and there is such a strong wind almost all the time that if you go
too near the water-falls the spray is blown over you like rain. We
make excursions every day to mountains and water-falls near by.

On the way here we saw a tree so large that it took fourteen of us
to get our arms round it.

If any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE ever get a chance to go
camping, I advise them to do it, for I think it is a great deal of
fun.

I like to read YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and I am so glad I take it.
I am twelve years old.

ALICE W. S.

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GLENORA, MISSISSIPPI.

My grandma gives YOUNG PEOPLE to my brother and myself, and we
like it very much. I have no pets to write about, for my little
pet deer, named Nettie, died. We live in the country, on the banks
of a beautiful lake, and have a nice time fishing and taking skiff
rides. I wish you could see the lovely magnolia-trees in my
grandma's yard; and she has so many pretty roses too.

LOUISE B.

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BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

My papa is in Europe this summer, and he writes me very funny
letters. His last one was from Paris, and he told me what people
did when they wanted to take a bath in their room at the hotel.
You touch an electric bell, and the man in the office telegraphs
to a station, and a cart carrying a round boiler with hot and cold
water, and drawn by a horse, comes dashing up to the hotel just
like a fire engine; a man rushes up to your room with a tub and
towels, and before you know it you are taking a nice warm bath.
Papa said one day, just for fun, he rang for two baths at the same
time, and it was very comical to see the two Frenchmen fight to
see which bath should be used first. Papa makes little sketches
all through his letters, so I know just how things look. I guess
we shall all go to Europe another year, an