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The following gratifying communication comes from the librarian of a
large public library in Illinois:

May prosperity attend your most excellent YOUNG PEOPLE! I keep it
on file in the reading-room, and it is pleasant to note the
eagerness with which its pages are devoured by the boys and girls
who daily throng our rooms. The paper is doing a noble work among
them, not only in amusing them, but by giving them solid
information upon a great variety of subjects in a most delightful
way, thus giving them a taste for a class of reading almost always
pronounced "dry" by the youngsters. It supplies a long-felt want
in juvenile literature. Again I say, success to your noble
enterprise!

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SUNDERLAND, VERMONT.

I am eleven years old, and I live in the country. Papa has a very
large farm.

I have three sisters. The oldest is in Philadelphia at school. I
am next to the oldest. My sister Annie and I have the care of the
chickens and turkeys. We have doves which are so tame they will
fly and alight on our hands to get corn. We had a little pet crow,
but it died last night. We are going to get another one. We have
wild strawberries. They are very plenty this year.

JENNIE G.

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THOMPSONVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

I take YOUNG PEOPLE. I think the engravings are so pretty. After I
went to bed last night, I could hear the people down stairs
talking. After a while papa began to read to mamma. I listened,
and soon made out that he was reading from YOUNG PEOPLE about "The
Boys and Uncle Josh." Papa laughed so that he had to stop reading
several times. I am twelve years old.

MINNIE S.

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SWEETWATER, TENNESSEE.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and I read all the letters from the
children. I have been going to school, but we have a vacation now.
I am not as well read as S. Cassius E----, but I am a year
younger. I have read some poems of Tennyson and other poets, and
the whole of Goodrich's _History of Rome and Greece_. I have a
crippled sister who has read a great deal, and she tries to make
me read more, but I spend most of my leisure time in practicing
music. I am learning