I am a little girl of nine years. My papa has taken Young People for me since the first number. I enjoy reading the children's letters very much.
My grandma is visiting us this summer, and she has her parrot with her. It is twenty-seven years old. It calls "Grandma" and "Mother," and screams for its breakfast. It says "Good-by" and "How do you do?" as plain as I can, and sings two songs, and imitates the cat, the dog, and the rooster, and does a great many other things.
Now I will tell the little girls what I have been doing since the school closed. I have learned to crochet, and have made two tidies and five yards of trimming. I am now making trimming of feathered-edge braid, and if any little girl who can crochet would like the pattern, I will be glad to send her a sample.
Gracie Meads,
Platte City, Platte County, Missouri.
San Bernardino, California.
I take Young People, and like it so much! I am ten years old. My papa is out at the mines, and I am going there too when it gets cooler weather. I have a pet kitten here at home, and my papa has got two kittens and a dog for me when I go out to the mines.
I have a doll named Goldie. My aunt sent it to me from New York city.
I go to school, and my reading-book is the History of the United States.
Florence R.