Tell your sister to take hold of the rooster's tail very gently. He is very kind to pick bananas for the hens. Charlotte's letter, which came with yours, will appear in a future number.
Tarrytown, New York.
I am ten years old, and hope you will put my piece of poetry in the poets' corner:
THE VIOLET.
It gently lifts its little head,
And looks up to the sun;
It hears the birds a-twittering,
And knows that spring has come.
It lives in quiet little nooks,
Where the sunbeams come and play;
It hears the crickets' cheerful chirp,
And sees them day by day.
And so this lovely little flower
Shows that spring has come;
But soon will wilt and fade away,
And then spring will be done.
Margaret Prall G.
McCainsville, New Jersey.
I enjoy reading your stories very much indeed, especially those written by Jimmy Brown. There is a robin and a chippy-bird building their nests on the honeysuckle vine that is climbing up our piazza. The nests are about two feet apart. My brother Fred has about twenty-two pigeons. They are so tame that they come in front of the kitchen and pick up the crumbs of bread.
Lizzie S. S.