NIA.

I enjoy reading the letters in the Post-office Box very much. In
No. 24 a little girl asks for some cooking recipes. I will send
her a recipe for a very nice doll's cup-cake. My little sister and
I make it often. We made it once when grandpa came to see us, and
he liked it so much that he had to be helped twice. This is the
recipe: One doll's cup of butter; two of sugar; three of flour;
one of sweet milk; one egg; a few scrapings of nutmeg; one
salt-spoonful of baking powder. When well mixed, put it into a
buttered pan. When it draws away from the side of the pan, it is
done.

BESSIE L. S.

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STUYVESANT SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY.

Some other girls and myself have formed a Wiggle Club. We are
going to get some papers printed with the heading, "Stuyvesant
Square Wiggle Club," on which we will all send in our Wiggles, and
we are going to have prizes for the best. The one of our Wiggles
that is published in YOUNG PEOPLE will take the prize. We can not
draw very well yet, but we will try to improve, and to be the
champions. Our names are Bertha, Toonie, Sarah, Nonie, Blanche.

Unfortunately your drawings of Wiggle No. 10 came too late to be
engraved. Your ideas were all excellent. In YOUNG PEOPLE No. 27 we gave
you a new Wiggle, which you can practice upon, and send us what you make
of it. The plan of your club is good, as it will afford you much
amusement, and at the same time give you good exercise in drawing.

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DIXON, ILLINOIS.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I can read the children's letters,
and I thought I would write myself. I have got a great family of
dolls--thirteen in all--and I like to look at the picture, on the
first page of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 7, of the two little girls and the
basket of dolls. My black cat is named Hippopotamus, but I call
him Pot for short. My papa at Christmas-time was dressed up like
Santa Claus, and brought us a bagful of presents. I did not know
it was papa till weeks afterward. I am seven years old.

MARY H.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I wonder if any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE have ever seen a
tarantula. It is a large hairy spider that lives in the tropics,
and its bite is very poisonous. I had one, with