l pictures.

FREDDIE G. C.

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MARENGO, IOWA.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I have a great many dolls, and I
feel very sorry for poor Jane, who fell in the water, but more
sorry for her dear mamma, Fanny. I am glad that Dora and Bessie
rescued Jane. I should like to know whether they ever found her
curls when the tide went down.

JESSIE LEE R.

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EAGLE GROVE, IOWA.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE better than any other paper we take. I am
twelve years old. I have been to school three terms without being
absent or tardy once. I would like to be a school-teacher when I
am old enough.

I tried Edith L.'s recipe for cream-candy, and I thought it very
nice.

There are a great many wild flowers here, both in the woods and on
the prairies.

My brothers have been busy harvesting, but they always find time
to read YOUNG PEOPLE.

MARY E. P.

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NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

I am so much interested to read of the pets that are often written
about in the Post-office Box that I thought the other children
might feel the same interest in mine. I have two kittens--a white
one named Julius Caesar, and a gray one named Spitz, because it
spits at everybody who comes near it. I also have three little
chickens named Bud, Blossom, and Cherry. They have no mother, and
I am bringing them up by hand. They run after me every time I go
near their box, and sometimes they seem to think Julius Caesar is
their mother, and they try to cuddle in his fur.

CARL E. T.

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HOUSTON, TEXAS.

My papa takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me, and I am so happy when it
comes. Every Saturday, when papa gets off from the street car, I
run out to meet him, and I say, "Papa, have you got HARPER'S YOUNG
PEOPLE?"

I have a pet pigeon with a red breast, a pussy, and a little brown
calf. I had two beautiful chickens, but they died. I am seven
years old.

LOTTIE S.

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MONA LAKE, MICHIGAN.

My home is at Allegan, but now we are staying at this beautiful
lake. It is only a station on the Grand Haven Railroad, and nobody
lives here except the station-master and one or two others,