well. Its usual note is a sort of
chirping whistle. It always knows when meal-times are, and cries
out until it has a share. About ten o'clock in the morning it
becomes very talkative in its own language, and I answer it.

LEWIS G. D.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I am a little girl seven years old. I go to a lovely place on the
sea-shore in summer. Crabbing is the best fun you can have there.
It is best to go on a rainy day. You take a crab-net, which is a
long pole with an iron ring at one end, and a net dropping from
it. Another person takes a line with some meat on it, and lets it
down into the water. When the crab comes to eat, you catch it with
the net. I went crabbing with my nurse one day, and we caught a
peach-basketful of crabs.

N. D.

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GREENVILLE, OHIO.

I want to tell you about some Punch-and-Judy figures I made
myself. I give a Punch-and-Judy show every Saturday, and I make
from five to ten cents each time. The boys tease me to play it all
the time. I am eleven years old, and I can play Punch and Judy
very well.

WILLIE G. H.

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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

I was very much interested in Gertrude Balch's letter in No. 17,
because her name is the same as my own. I have a little brother,
who asks every day if that is not the day for YOUNG PEOPLE to
come. At grandma's, where I am visiting, there are two cats, named
Nancy and John, and my aunt has an Esquimaux dog that is very
large and handsome. He sleeps under my bed every night. I wish
some little girl would please tell me how I can tame birds.

DAISIE BALCH.

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I thought, perhaps, you would like a letter from Tallahoma,
Tennessee; and I want to tell you that YOUNG PEOPLE is a very
welcome visitor at our house. The story "Across the Ocean" is just
splendid. Spring is here. Peach-trees were in bloom before the
middle of March, and now we have a great many flowers.

ROBERT H. D.

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BROOKSIDE FARM, MISSOURI, _March 30, 1880_.

I heard a whip-poor-will this morning for the first time this
year, and would be very glad if others would inform me if they
have heard the bird