AMERICA.
America is a large country, and it has many large rivers, and it has many animals, and has wild creatures.
America is a most important country. And many a people like to go there. And it has many wild birds—mocking birds, nightingale, raccoon, and also the opossum and lion, tiger, elephant, and the rhinoceros.
And in America there are lakes, seas, and the bushes are so thick that you can hardly tell when a human is beside them.
The States in America are so large that ten hundred can get in these. But if one of the animals was to seize you once you would never want to go there any more, for if one of them get hold of you you would hollow like anything. It would settle your hash. It would frighten you so much you never would want to see one of them.
HALL JOHNSON,
Age 6, December 16, 1894.
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