has
to sit still. He wants to be in mischief all the time, and he is a
little wide-awake, and will not go to sleep when he can help it.
He is nineteen months old.

ADA E.

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LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS.

I want to tell you about some fun I had the other day. We have a
barrel sunk in the yard with water-lilies in it. There was a
lizard in it too. I made a noose and caught it, and put it into
mamma's big dish pan, which I filled with water. Then I caught two
little toads; one was a little brown fellow about an inch long,
and the other a little larger. I put a little piece of board in
the water, and fastened it to the end of the string that was round
the lizard's neck. Then I put the little toads on the board, and
the lizard drew them all around.

EMMA H.

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SCOTTSVILLE, NEW YORK.

I am five and a half years old. I can not read, but I can write
letters, although mamma says nobody can read them, so she is
writing this for me. Mamma and sister read me the stories in YOUNG
PEOPLE. I liked "The Moral Pirates" best of all, but I was afraid
Jim would get shot when he took the borrowed boat back.

I have a cat that eats milk and everything with its paw. And I
have three rabbits.

Yesterday I took mamma and papa over to the depot, a mile away,
and drove home all alone.

I go fishing with papa, and have caught a good many fish.

MILTON B.

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XENIA, OHIO.

I wish to ask a favor of some of the Southern correspondents of
the Post-office Box. My sister planted a cotton seed, and the
plant that came up bears white blossoms which afterward turn red
and drop off. Now I would like very much to know whether it is
cotton or not. I would also be glad for all information about the
cotton-plant that any correspondent will give.

ROSCOE E. E.

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I am a little boy seven years old. I live at Ingleton, Alabama,
two miles from Dickson. My papa owns a large stone quarry. I have
two little brothers and one little sister, and we take YOUNG
PEOPLE. I like Bessie Maynard's letters to her dollie the best of
all.

GEORGIE F.

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BUFFALO PAPER MILL, NORTH CARO