ma can not. He is
almost three years old.

PAUL S.

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JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS.

I am nine years old. I have a cat. She is three years old. There is
a strange cat comes in our cellar. I gave her some milk, and she
would not drink it. She runs away from me. I have a tool-box, and
have been making some easels to-day.

ARTHUR N. B.

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SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

There are a great many coal mines near where I live. Six little
girls, including myself, went down in one of them once with the
superintendent, who explained to us how they mined coal. We girls
each took a miner's pick and knocked off a piece of coal, so that
we could say we had mined some ourselves. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and
I like it ever so much.

M. H. A.

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PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

I have a cunning little kitten, and its name is Pinafore. It will
eat ice-cream as fast as I can give it to it. We have had lots of
snow here, and I go out sliding 'most all the time when I am not in
school.

ABBIE C. PUTNAM.

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LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

When I read Harry P. H.'s letter about his kitten that eats
peanuts, I thought I would tell you about a dog I know. His name is
Sport, and he lives at my grandfather's farm, not far from here. As
soon as he sees me he runs toward me, and wags his tail, and jumps
up and down. He follows me everywhere. I give him corn and apples
to eat, and he jumps to take them from my fingers. When he is very
hungry he will always eat corn and apples. Do all dogs like such
things?

W. A. LEWIS.

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FORT PREBLE, PORTLAND, MAINE.

I live in a fort by the sea-shore. Our post takes HARPER'S WEEKLY,
and I read the YOUNG PEOPLE, which comes with it. We have splendid
boating and fishing. We catch cod-fish, mackerel, cunners, and
lobsters. We catch the lobsters in nets. I have two pet pigeons,
and two kittens exactly alike. Their names are Spunk and Pluck.
Spunk will run up my knee when I hold out a piece of meat.

CAMPBELL P. HAMILTON.

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WEST TROY, NEW YORK.

I would like to know what to do with my parrot. He t