se it opened its petals only when
the wind blew.

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FAIRFIELD, ALABAMA.

My heart is gladdened once a week when papa says, "Daughter, here
is your paper." I am far away in the South, but Uncle Sam's mail
arrangement is so grand that it finds us all. I was eleven years
old last month, and had a nice birthday party. I go to school, and
love my teacher very much.

MAMIE JONES.

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

I have lived in the South two years, although I was born in Ohio.
There is never any snow here, and I long to get back North on
account of winter sports. Atlanta is surrounded by beautiful
scenery, and also by many traces of the war, such as intrenchments
and breastworks. In answer to Edwin A. H., I will say that I have
a cabinet, but have not so many specimens as he. I have minerals
and other things from many parts of the far West, collected by
myself, and also dried flowers from New Zealand, and a nut from
Vancouver Island.

JOHN G. WILSON.

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MONMOUTH, OREGON.

I thought I would drop a line to you, and let you know that I am
one of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I like it very much. I am nine
years old. I have a little brother who has some pet rabbits. I
left Wales with papa and mamma when I was three years old. Then I
could not speak a word of English, but now I don't remember a word
of Welsh. We are having lots of snow here this winter.

DAVID FOULKES.

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WRIGHTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

I live in a very quiet little village. Just across one field from
our house stands a house which was Washington's head-quarters at
the time of the Revolutionary war. About one-quarter of a mile
away there is a tree, more than a century old, under which
Washington stood just before he started for Trenton on
Christmas-night, 1776. He crossed the Delaware six miles east of
this place. Near this village is a barn two hundred years old.

ROSE W. SCOTT.

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ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, _March 3, 1880_.

About five weeks ago a lady in this place found two pansies in
bloom in her garden, and last week a man told my papa he saw a
large flock of robins in some cherry-trees in his