besides those who are camping out. Most of the people live in
tents, but we live in a house.

I think Mona Lake is a beautiful place. There are picnics here
almost every day. The chief attractions are boating, fishing,
bathing, and the well of mineral water, which is said to be very
fine. The lake itself is about seven miles long, and where we live
it is about a quarter of a mile wide. It was named after my sister
Mona, who was named after Castle Mona, in the Isle of Man. Papa
has the American flag on a flag-staff on our house, and the Manx
flag, with the three legs, on a pole set in the ground.

Pickerel, bass, cat-fish, sunfish, and perch are caught here. Pa
caught a cat-fish that weighed fifteen pounds.

There are two camps here now. They are called "Kat-fish Kamp" and
"Camp Toodle La." The last one is named after a song they sing
here a good deal. It begins,

"Gentleman frog lived in the spring,
Toodle la! toodle la!"

EDDIE S. C. M.

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FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I like it
very much. I think the Post-office Box is splendid. I have read
the letter from Jennie Anderson, and should like to hear more
about her home in India.

We have three canaries, and one of them is almost as old as I am.
I am fourteen.

EMMA K. G.

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

I have four dolls. Their names are Bertha, Fanny, Juliette, and
Rosy. Bertha has beautiful black hair, and Fanny has golden hair.

I, too, go very often to Spanish Fort. We had a little canary. It
was a beautiful singer. But one day my aunt left the door open
when she cleaned the cage, and it flew away, and never has been
found. I am ten years old, and I have been to England, France, and
Germany.

LOUISA D.

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I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent of
YOUNG PEOPLE.

WILLIE H. SCHERZER,
523 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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I am collecting different kinds of seeds, and I would like to
exchange with any correspondents of your valuable paper. I have
verbenas, forget-me-nots, four-o'clocks (red, white, and yellow),
cypress, trop