I can row on the river. I have
two kittens to play with. One of them climbs up on father's back
when he is eating, and when he takes a bite Kitty will try to get
half of it. We live near woods, and in the summer we ramble in
them, and in the autumn we gather nuts. The land here is mostly
cultivated for tobacco, and on the tobacco lots and on the
river-bank we find a number of Indian relics. One of the boys here
found a store of arrow-heads. There were about one hundred
together. I am eleven years old.

B. D. ARCHER.

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FORT CUSTER, MONTANA TERRITORY.

I am ten years old. My papa is captain in the army. I have never
been to school, and can not write quite as nice a letter as some
other little girls of my age. I have a big brother who is
thirteen, and a sister two years and four months. My brother's
name is Willie. Last year he went off to school. Nannie, my
sister, says very funny things. Sometimes she will come running
in, and say, "I am so hunky dory I don't know what to do; want
sonton to neat." Can any little girl tell what this means? I read
a letter from an army girl who is older than I. I looked in the
register to see if her papa's name was there, and I found it. My
papa is in the Eleventh Infantry, and maybe Grace Henton and I
will meet some day. I hope she will see my letter.

ETTA M. GILBREATH.

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MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE a great deal. Papa gets it, and puts a pin in
and cuts it, and we look at it till dinner is ready. When I go to
bed, mamma reads it to me, and lays it on the little table, so I
can look at the pictures before I get up in the morning. On George
Washington's Birthday night I went to the barn to get Sallie, my
cat. I found her in an old barrel, and was going to tip it over,
when I heard something squealing a little squeal. There were two
little kittens there. Mamma named them George and Martha
Washington. I shall be six in May. I told all this to mamma, and
my name is

JOHN.

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HARTFORD, OHIO.

Yesterday was Easter, and I and my little brother had twelve dozen
eggs hid. For dinner we decorated some with decalcomanie pictures,
and they were very pretty. I have thirte