Nettie Amelung,
865 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
I wouldn't cry about it, dear.
Though things are going wrong;
'Tis much the better way, my dear,
To sing a little song.
Lima, Ohio.
I am six years old to-day. I never have been to school, but can read some of the stories in my Young People. My mamma is giving me music lessons. I can sing and play a number of tunes. I like my paper very much.
Nettie N.
Cahto, Mendocino County, California.
I am a little girl living in Long Valley, Mendocino County, California. My brother is trapping. The eagles have been killing father's lambs. Brother took a lamb which they had killed, set his trap with it, and caught the eagle. That time the lamb caught the eagle. I go with him sometimes to his traps to see the foxes, 'coons, and wild-cats try to get out.
My little brother, four years old, went with father to feed the hogs. Father said so much rubbish would kill them. "Well," said he, "papa, you won't have to shoot them so many times."
I go to school. My mother tells me that my school days are pleasant days for me. I would agree with her if I had not so far to go—two miles over hills; and everything looks so cheerful when I start to school!