Bessie G. T.
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear St. Nicholas: I am a little boy from the South, and have only gone to school a few months; but as my mamma says I must some day be a Governor, and my grandma expects me to be a President, I will commence with St. Nicholas. I will be satisfied if I am ever as wise and good as was Mr. Paul Hayne, our poet, who died last summer.
He had a splendid horse named Dick. Often, when he would ride out in the woods to compose a poem, he would take me with him if I would promise not to speak a word, and I know it was harder for me not to speak than for him to write the poem.
Albert A.
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