ose.--Your friend,

KATIE BAKER.

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New York.

DEAR ST NICHOLAS: I want to send this story to The letter box that
I wrote when I was 6 years old this is it

LITTLE MAY

Once upon a time there lived a little girl whose father and mother
were very rich, so the little girl had lovely dresses, but she had
a very bad temper and was very proud so nobody loved her. One day
this little girl I might as well tell you her name it was May was
sitting in her mothers lap Mama said she what makes everybody act
so to me? Dear said her mother it is because you are so proud and
get angry so easily then said May if I should try to be good would
they like me Yes said her mother so after that May was a better
child and every body liked her even her mother loved her better
than before and so did her father and after that the little girl
was no more saying Oh dear nobody loves me but lived happy and
contented.

ELISE L. LATHROP.

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Geneva, N.Y.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I notice in a chapter of "His Own Master" for
September a mistake which I can correct. In describing the
Cincinnati suspension bridge, it says that trains go across on it.
This is a mistake, as that bridge is only used for carriages,
horse-cars and pedestrians, the steam-cars going across on another
bridge above. There is now building a new railroad bridge below for
the new Southern Railroad.--Yours respectfully,

W.S.N.

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San Leandro, Cal., Sept. 3, 1877.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I tried the Little Schoolma'am's way of pressing
flowers, and I think it is ever so nice. I pressed a wall-flower;
it retained all its brightness and looked just like a fresh flower.
Last spring we discovered a humming-bird's nest in one of the trees
in our orchard. It was very pretty, being no larger than half of a
hen's egg. The first time I saw it the little mother was on it; she
sat as still as a stone, and looked as if she would not budge an
inch for me or anybody else. I am always very glad when the ST.
NICHOLAS comes.--Your affectionate little reader,

SUSIE R. IRWIN.

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Princeton, N.J.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I would like to tell you of the interesting