My teacher takes Harper's Young People, and I think it is very nice. I have a yellow cat. Papa has two yellow cats, and one stands right up on its hind-legs. I go to Berkeley School, on Bloomfield Avenue. I have not seen any letter yet from Bloomfield, so will you please publish this letter. Please excuse writing, for I am just beginning to write with ink.
Phebe C.
Neither of you need have apologized for such distinct writing.
New York City.
I think those little country boys and girls who have never been in the city would like to see our fire-engines and elevated railroads.
We have two pet cats at our house, one all white and the other all black. The white cat's name is Nellie, and the black cat's name is Nig. If I say to Nellie, "Kiss me," she will do so; and if I say to Nig, "Give me your paw," she will obey me.
I saw some ragamuffins on Thanksgiving-day in a place that they call the Fire Points, and they were very nice. They had a little fellow dressed up in a monkey skin, and they had a platform built on a horse's back, on which was an organ-grinder. Another horse was led by a string from the monkey, and a great many very comical figures were in the procession.
Henry F.
It does not seem quite kind to speak of the poor children at the Five Points as ragamuffins, though we do not imagine that you intended any contempt of them. You were glad that they had a pleasant time, were you not?
Orange, New Jersey.