Willie C. S.
Harshmanville, Ohio.
Papa takes Harper's Young People for my brother. Mamma made him a pie from Helen's recipe. It was very nice. Mamma says some little girls are born cooks.
When my brother reads the fairy stories in Young People, he says he would like to wade the Atlantic Ocean, and put a few whales in his pocket for his minnow tank. Now he wants to go fishing in a boat. He is almost ten, and I am seven.
Mamma says, Tell Puss Hunter to set her bread to rise in a deep vessel, as the less surface exposed, the better it is, as the gas is kept confined in the dough. A flannel cloth to cover it with is best, for the same reason. Mamma says she is a friend to all little bakers.
Myrtie Belle E.
I would like to exchange dried grasses, Southern moss, birds' eggs and nests, for sea-shells, with any reader of Young People.
Horace L. Barlow,
Refugio, Refugio County, Texas.