o mucho.

Tu hijita

INES.

write--let'ter--pens--goose
quill--spilled.

Mamma, Agnes, and baby went to
visit grandpa.

Poor papa could not go.

He had to stay at home.

"What shall I do without you?" said he.

"I will write you a letter," Agnes
answered.

"I will tell you what we are doing."

"Can you write a letter?" said
papa.

"O yes, I can," said Agnes.

"I am seven now.

You shall see that I can write a
letter."

Agnes had a very good time.

One day she said, "Grandma, may I
take a pen?

I want to write to papa."

"Yes," said grandma, "there are pens
on the desk."

Agnes ran to grandpa's desk.

"O grandma! here is such a funny
pen!"

"That is a quill pen," said her
grandma.

"Grandpa made it for me.

It is a goose quill.

In old times everybody used to write
with quill pens."

"I think it is very pretty," said
Agnes.

"I don't think I can write with it."

She took another pen and went off.

In a little while she went back to
the desk.

What did she see there?

Baby had taken the quill pen.

She had been writing to papa with it.

And what a letter she had written!

She had spilled the ink over the
desk.

"O baby, baby! what did you do
that for?"

Mamma sent baby's letter to papa.

He said he was glad to get both
Letters.

AGNES'S LETTER TO HER FATHER.

SITIO GRANDE, JULY 8, 1917.

DEAR PAPA:

We are having a very good time.
Grandpa has a big bay horse. Sometimes he
puts me on the horse's back. It is such fun!
I play in the field a great deal. Grandpa lets
me walk on the haycocks. I pick berries for
grandma. They give us cheese with our coffee.
I wish you were here with us. Baby has written
you a letter. She took grandma's quill pen,
and she spilled the ink. Can you read her
letter? She says she wrote "How are you,
papa? I love you a gre