Rio, Illinois.
I am just overjoyed when Young People comes. I always sit down and read it all through, and oh, how I wish there was as much again! I don't suppose I shall get it to-day, for the train is stuck tight in a snow-bank below Rio. Three engines are trying to pull it out, but they can not move it. We have had a terrible winter here. The snow has drifted clear across the road and right over the fences, so that teams could not go anywhere.
Nellie A. R.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
I have a dog that drags me all around the city on my sled. The snow here is six or seven feet deep in many places. Some of the houses are half covered up with drifts. I jumped from our up-stairs barn door into a drift twelve feet deep, and I had hard work to get out of it.
Fred G. S.
Emmetsburg, Iowa, March 4, 1881.
We have had a long, cold winter here. To-day there is a regular "blizzard," and we have had a great many already. We live on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, but have not seen a train since January 29, because the cuts are all filled with snow, and as fast as they are cleared out, another "blizzard" comes and fills them up again. I don't get Young People very regularly, only when the stage brings the mail, and then I get several numbers at once. The drifts are very high, and we walk on them over the tops of the fences. One drift is twelve feet deep.