His name is Sam, and he has no horns. I know he
loves me, for he follows me all around. I had two rabbits called
Jennie and Baby. Sam and Jennie used to have good fun chasing each
other around the yard playing tag. Sam and I are going to Aunt
Louise's farm next week. Goats eat hay and oats in the winter, and
they eat all the clothes on the wash-line they can reach, too.

HARRY D.

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WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

I am ten years old, and I have a bird named Dick, seven years old.
If any one of the family goes near its cage, it spreads its wings
and opens its mouth and scolds. I have a pet cat named Ned, and
when I buy catnip for him he tears open the paper.

LAURA E. M.

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POCAHONTAS CENTRE, IOWA.

I used to live on a farm before I came here. I have no brothers or
sisters, but I have two dogs, Lassie and Peto. Peto is a splendid
retriever. I have a pet cat named Belle, and she has two cunning
kittens. Yesterday my grandpa sent me a bow and arrows all the way
from Michigan, where I used to live. I study natural history in
school, and like it the best of all my lessons. I am almost nine
years old.

LOUIE B. K.

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FORT PLAIN, NEW YORK.

I would like to tell Willie L. B. that the mounds were made by
people who lived in our land before the red man came. They are now
known as the mound-builders. There were also people who made their
houses in cliffs.

N. B. G.

There is really nothing known of the history of the mound-builders and
cliff-dwellers, who were early inhabitants of our country. Their mounds
and their dwellings remain, but they are silent monuments of an extinct
people.

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If Genevieve will give her address, I will exchange pressed
flowers with her when ours blossom. I spoke "Fair Play," the poem
in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 12, in school last Friday.

ADDIE GOODNOW.
Albion, New York.

Della Smith, of Keyport, New Jersey, also wishes the address of
Genevieve for the purpose of exchanging pressed flowers. This little
California girl has not yet favored us with her address, but she has no
doubt sent it to some among the many inquirers for her. Probably any
little girl desiring to exchange pressed flowers with Genevieve