think you will.

Yours truly,

EDDIE H. B.

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AYER, MASS.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: As so many of your readers have written
to you, I thought I would write too, that I might have the
pleasure of seeing my letter in print.

I have taken you a year and have fallen greatly in love with
your delightful pages.

I think "How Science Won the Game" is a lovely story; I felt
much interested in it, for last summer the girls of my age
who lived here got up a base-ball nine. In time, we played
very nicely and enjoyed the fun. The readers of the
Letter-box may think this a funny game for girls to play,
but we liked it and found it very good exercise.

I am fifteen years old; I have a little dog, his name is
Teddie; he is a very good little dog, but I pity the cat
that gets in his way.

I like to read "From Bach to Wagner," as I enjoy reading of
different composers.

Your true reader,

RUTH F.

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We heartily thank the young friends whose names here follow, for
pleasant letters received from them: Kate Ethel C., John Myers, Sadie B.
Crane, G. M. F., Jamie H., Walter J. Cohen, Stuart L. Martin, George
Williams, Eddie L. Goodman, Violette T. Haines, Lillie M. Grubbs, Freda
Nicolai, Eva Wilkins, Miriam Ferry, Hortie O'Meara, Anna Ross, Clara
Louise Whitney, Constance and Richard Bigelow, E. R. B., J. H. B., Mary
and Gussie, Jessie Hiltner, Alberta Stout, Willis Dunning, Nellie E.
Stebbins, Marion R. Brown, A. W. Smith, Josie and May, Kate G., Hallie
H. Haines, Johnny B. S., Daisy, Gertie Beidler, Mary M. C., Charles L.
Baldwin, Kitty Clover, Alice Olney, Emil Harrington, Katie M. Cathcart,
Arthur F. B., Agnes Hanks, Elizabeth K. Stewart, Wade W. Thayer, Brooks
Upham, Rosalie, Mamie Eells, Florence Lanty, Frank Dearstyne, Vera
Wheeler, Nellie McN. Suydam, Elizabeth B. Grumball, Ida Cameron, Ethel
Marion Walker, Fawn Evans, Alfa P. Tyrrell, H. and A. V. P., G. P. S.,
Clara Moore, F. W. S., Portia, Nellie T., Eva R., Norine, Anna M.
Lister, Blanche E. Ives, Mary Hicks, "Dolly Varden," Nora T. C., Natie
P. Thompson, Daniel McPhail, Mary E. Seavey, Storrs E. E., H. C. J.