un
here--swinging, playing croquet, riding, and rolling in the
hammocks.

MAY T.

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LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

I am twelve years old. Papa takes YOUNG PEOPLE for my brother and
me, and we like it very much. I have two pets--a cat and a canary.
I let my canary out of its cage almost every day. If I do not, it
seems to think itself very badly treated. Violets were in blossom
here about the 1st of April.

ANTOINETTE R.

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PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

I am a little boy. My sister takes your paper, and we take so much
pleasure in reading it that I thought I would like to write to
you. We live on the sea-shore, and have seines hauled for fish.
Sometimes we catch sword-fish, sharks, and saw-fish. The other day
we caught a sea-spider. It was like a common spider, but larger,
and had a hard shell like a crab. Its fore-feet were something
like a crab's claws.

R. D. G.

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ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

I live on the shore of Presque Isle Bay, where "Mad" Anthony Wayne
was buried. There is a monument erected over his grave. They are
now rebuilding the old block-house, which was burned a few years
ago. The flag-ship _Lawrence_, which Perry commanded when he
gained the victory over the British on Lake Erie, used to lie
buried in our bay, but in 1876 some enterprising young man raised
it out of the water, and took it to the Centennial. I think we
have the nicest place in the United States for rowing, fishing,
camping out, and having lots of fun. I am eight years old.

MAMIE H.

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I like to read the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE, and I thought I would
tell you about a wild-cat. On the evening of April 28, about five
o'clock, I had just finished my music lesson, when I saw a large
crowd standing near our house. I ran out, and I heard some one
saying, "It is a wild-cat." I thought at first it was a
prairie-wolf. It was two feet in height, and two feet and a half
long. It had a cat's head, but its claws were as big as a dog's.
It was dead, and a boy had a string round its neck. It came into
the city from the country in a load of trees; and when the men
took the trees out of the car, it sprang out, and j