I live in the country, and I have very nice times. There has been skating on the Hudson River almost all winter. We have very fine hills here. I have a pair of bobs. As many as seven boys can get on it, and it goes very fast indeed. I hope it will snow more, and make the coasting better.
Willie G.
I have been taking Young People for a year, and I think it is the best paper ever published.
I have a pet monkey named Jacko. He is up to all sorts of tricks. He will put wood on the fire, and put on the tea-kettle.
I would like to exchange minerals, for ocean curiosities.
The snow here is six feet deep.
E. G. Kelly,
816 East Eighth Street, Leadville, Colorado.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, January 30, 1881.
I wish to inform my correspondents that I have no more curiosities to exchange at present. I have sent for some more, but it will be some time before I get them.
William C. McConnell.