his informant was General
Ebenezer Mead. Please tell Mr. Lossing that General Mead was my
great-grandfather. I am nine years old. I was born in Evergreen,
Louisiana, and came North when I was only three weeks old, so I
don't remember about any home but where I live now.

BEN BRYANT HILL.

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DEL NORTE, COLORADO.

I am ten years old, and live away out in the Rocky Mountains. I
went down to the hotel last night, and saw the twelve Ute chiefs
who are on the way to Washington. Ouray, the head chief, had his
wife with him. There being but one chair in the room, she very
kindly sat flat upon the floor, and allowed her husband to occupy
the chair.

WALLACE S.

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SHEEPSCOTT BRIDGE, MAINE.

I am eleven years old. My father tells me lots of stories about
Indians, and shows me the places where some poor people were killed
by them. Our field takes in a part of Garrison Hill, where people
used to come into the fort when the Indians came. My father says
Sheepscott is a very old place, and the Pilgrims came here for
corn. Close by our field is an old barn where the Indians came when
some men were threshing, and fired on them, and killed two and took
their scalps off, and one man hit back at them with his flail, and
broke an Indian's arm, and they carried him prisoner to Canada. It
says so on his old grave-stone, and I have seen it. My grandfather
shot bears, but there are none here now. The people here build
little houses on the ice, and catch lots of smelts through a hole
in the ice. Sometimes there are as many as a hundred houses. The
smelts are sent to New York. I like _Young People_, and hope I
shall always get it.

CLARENCE E. C.

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WARREN, OHIO.

I want to tell you about my dogs. I have two coach-dogs; Spot and
Sport are their names. I used to drive them in a sleigh, and they
would draw me all about the town. I trained them all myself. Sport
was just like some horses; he would back and kick and chew his
harness. One day he chewed it all to pieces. Spot was good all the
time. I am older now, and drive ponies. I drove the dogs when I was
five years old.

ALASKA P.

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EMPORIA, KANS