Bardstown, Kentucky.
I want to tell you all what a nice pony I have. My papa presented him to me when I was eight years old. I call him Leander. Oh, he is perfectly splendid! and although I am only eight years and a little over, I can ride and manage him quite well. I know some of the little girls, and boys too, would laugh to see me when I start off to school, which is only six or seven squares from home. I ride every morning on my pony, and there is a little colored boy named Ed, who lives in our family, who likes to ride so well that he runs along beside me to school so that he can ride home alone. He thinks it is jolly.
I have the cutest little black-and-tan terrier, which I call Tim. I just wish you could see him. And then my papa and I have a very fine mocking-bird, which we call Dick.
I saw the letter of dear Rosie K. B., and know her very well; so, dear Editor, please put my letter in, and see if anybody can guess who I am.
Florence E. McK.
Bowling Green, Kentucky.
I am a little boy nine years old, and I have a little dog just the same age, named Fannie. She has been my constant companion ever since I was six months old. I have two white rabbits, one named Floss and the other Fleece. I would like some of the little boys who have had some experience in raising rabbits to tell me how to treat them. I have the smallest little pony you ever saw. He is nearly white. I call him Santa. I live in the sweetest little city in Kentucky. We have nice hills to coast on in the winter, and the finest river in the world to go swimming in in the summer; it is clear as glass on account of its gravel bottom. We go up to a sand-bar, and jump off the sycamore logs into the water over our heads. Sometimes fishing parties of young ladies and gentlemen come by in boats while we are swimming, and in trying to hide ourselves we look like so many turtles sitting on logs. I have two brothers older than myself. I have no sisters, but I have a darling little cousin. I called her Little Buttercup once, and she said, "You tan't dink out of me."
Richard T.
Aberdeen, Mississippi.