Fletcher M. Noe.
Perfect honor and honesty should be observed by exchangers. We hear complaints like this with regret, and hope the delinquent boy will explain the matter. Several correspondents are in trouble because those who have written to them have carelessly omitted to give their proper names and addresses, or have written illegibly.
We have spoken of this frequently, but we call attention to it now because it has been almost impossible for us to read some of the exchanges lately sent to the Post-office Box. Please write plainly, and with ink; pencil marks are rubbed off in the mail. Again we say, in answer to several inquiries, that there is no charge for exchanges. We do not accept those which offer or ask for money, however, because they come under the head of advertisements, and refer to buying and selling.
Falls City, Nebraska.
My home is on a farm two miles from Falls City, four miles from the line of Kansas, and eight from the Missouri River. I have three brothers and two sisters at home. We read the first chapter of "Tim and Tip" to-day, and we do not blame Tim for running away. We think it will be a very good story.
Like many of the young people who write for the Post-office Box, we had a pet. It was a young mare named Nelly, and she was so gentle that any of us could ride her; but last week, when she was in the pasture, she lay down to roll near a rattlesnake, and it bit her so that she died in three days. She swelled very much, and suffered terribly, and we all felt like crying when she died. Papa has buried her in the orchard. She left a little colt only six weeks old, and we have given it to another mare, who now has two colts to care for. There used to be a great many rattlesnakes here, but they are getting scarcer every year. I wish some good saint would drive all the snakes out of Nebraska, as St. Patrick is said to have banished them from Ireland.
Mamie H. H.
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