Flint, Michigan.
I had Young People for a Christmas present, and I like it very much. I have a puppy. I call him Champion, after that brave dog in the story I read in Young People No. 20. He is two months old, and my papa thinks he will be big enough next winter to draw me on my sled.
Josie A. U.
Duncansby, Mississippi.
I am a little girl ten years old, and I have a brother eight. I live in the country, two miles from the Mississippi River, where there is nothing to see but big fields of cotton and corn. Papa is a planter. I wait patiently every week for Young People. I was born in Louisiana, but my grandpa was born in New York State. I have never been to school. I am taught at home.
Callie R. H.
Windsor, Connecticut.
I send you the names of all the flowers I have found in the month of April. I bring them in from the fields, and mamma tells me the names, and I write them down in a book. I think I can find more flowers in May, as I live too far north to find many in April. Here is the list: Round-lobed hepatica (Hepatica triloba), trailing arbutus (Epigœa repens), yellow adder-tongue violets (Erythronium americanum), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), cinque-foil (Potentilla canadensis), sweet white violet (Viola blanda), common blue violets (Viola cucullata), wood-anemone (Anemone nemorosa), rue-anemone (Thalictrum anemonoides), wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca), shepherd's-purse (Capsella bursa), leather-leaf (Cassandra calyculata), dandelion (Taraxacum dens-leonis), bluets (Oldenlandia cerulia).