I like Young People better than any other paper I have ever taken.
I have a pet 'coon, a squirrel, a canary, a dog, and two cats. And I have a large doll. She is three feet and eight inches tall. Her name is Gervaise. I got her at the Centennial Exhibition.
I love to read the letters in the Post-office Box.
I went fishing this spring for the first time, and caught six fish. I am eleven years old, and now in the summer I am not going to school.
Will any little girl send me a recipe for cream candy?
Flora B.
Okolona, Mississippi.
I am a little girl six years old, and I can not write very well yet. I do not go to school, but mamma teaches me at home. I like Young People so much! I have a little dog named Snip. I live in the South, and it is pretty warm here now.
Two mocking-birds have a nest and four little baby birds in a rose-bush near our sitting-room window.