nxiety.
She reproached herself in many quite unnecessary ways. She had talked
the matter over with Mrs. Brown until both were exhausted, and now she
was pacing the piazza in weary restlessness.

Quillie, unable to sleep, came trotting out in her night-gown, and
seeing poor nurse's sad face, went up to her, and whispered something
about "God being able to take care of little Julie wherever she might
be," when far away came the sound of wheels.

"Hark!" said nurse, "is that wagon coming here?"

"Yes," said Quillie, listening, "it is coming here."

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

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PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT.

I have both wild and tame pets. This spring a pair of brown-headed
birds built their nest in the _Akebia quinata_. The old birds have
grown so tame that they will come up to my feet to eat crumbs.
Their young are fully fledged now. The robins have a brood in the
apple-tree, and now another pair of small birds have begun to
build in one of our evergreens. My tame pets are a pair of jonquil
canaries, Nedy and Barbra. They hatched four eggs, but all the
little birds died. Now Barbra has a nest of five eggs, and
yesterday one bird was hatched, and to-day another. I have a few
choice varieties of roses and other plants. The roses and
honeysuckles in the garden are in bloom. I am ten years old.

ALTIA R. A.

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GENEVA, NEW YORK.

We have four old canaries, and one of them, named Fanny, laid two
eggs, and now there are two little birds. They keep Dick busy
feeding them all the time. We give them bread and milk and boiled
egg. This spring we had a pair of twin lambs, and the mother sheep
did not like but one, so we had to feed the other. My brother
Herbert is the one who feeds it, and it will follow him
everywhere. The other day it walked into the dining-room after
him. It will not come to me. We have over forty little chickens,
and twelve turkeys. The turkeys are just as pretty as they can be.

GRACE ELEANOR.

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JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

I am ten years old. I would like you to know how much I like YOUNG
PEOPLE. I do so love to read the letters from the little girls and
boys. I have a canary named Beauty, and a cat