r a pet. It is red and white, and is now two
weeks old. I do not like to pet it much, because it always wants
to put its nose on me, and I don't like that, for its nose is
always wet. Papa says if it was dry, the calf would be sick. I
have a water-spaniel--a liver-colored, curly fellow. Papa got him
for me when I was three years old, and I have had him eight years,
so you can tell how old I am. I have twenty-two chickens. Some are
light Brahmas, and some golden Seabright Bantams.

WILLIE B. B.

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LITCHFIELD, ILLINOIS.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE, and my papa buys it for me every week. I can
not read well yet, so mamma reads the stories and little letters
to me. I have a pet dog one year old. When I hold up a bit of
cake--which he likes better than anything else--and say, "Do you
want it?" he will bark and jump around lively. His name is Chub. I
have Gyp (my cat), a canary, and six pet chickens. I had a turtle,
but it went out on the porch one day, and fell off, and walked
away. I felt so badly to lose it! I am seven years old.

LULU M. S.

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HARPER, IOWA.

I am seven years old. I live in a town which was named for the
Harper Brothers, and as I was the first child born here, I was
named Harper. I thank you for YOUNG PEOPLE. My papa says the
Harper Brothers have done a great deal of good for the American
people, and I guess he knows, for he reads a great deal. I have
two brothers and a sister older than I am, and we all have great
fun with the Wiggles and Misfits.

HARPER R.

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LYKENS, PENNSYLVANIA.

I am ten years old, and I have two younger sisters--Bertha and
Alice. Bertha is eight, and Alice will be five on the Fourth of
July. Every week when papa brings home YOUNG PEOPLE Alice asks if
there is any more of "Biddy O'Dolan" in it. We all liked that
story very much. We live in the coal regions, within sight of the
breaker, and the coal-dirt banks that look like mountains. I have
never been down the slope--I am afraid--but I have stood at the
top, and seen the empty cars go down and the full ones come up. I
studied algebra this winter, and went as far as cube root. I have
house plants for my pets, and they are in full bloom.