o think more about these unfortunate children, and try to do
what they can to make the life of some one a little happier.
Permit me to congratulate you on the success your paper has
achieved both here and abroad.

A TEACHER.

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PINAL CITY, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

I am a little girl ten years old. I live in Arizona, where the
great silver mines are, and where the cactus grows forty feet
high. There were only three white families in this place when we
came, three years ago. The place was called Picket Post then,
because soldiers were stationed here. I have several pets.
Nuisance is my pet deer. She is almost two years old, and is as
tame as my cat. She wears a red collar, so hunters will not kill
her. Bub is my pet donkey. I love my Arizona pets very much, but
not so much as my dear pet grandma, whom we left in Chicago. When
papa strikes it rich, we are going home to her.

PEARL R. BROWN.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I have had a great many different kinds of pets, but two that
amused me the most were Charley, a snow-white rabbit, and Jet, a
black kitten. The two were good friends, and played together, and
ate out of the same dish. One day bunny stole a large red rose,
and came running into the house with it in his mouth, and Jet at
his heels. The deep red of the rose, the snowy rabbit, and black
Jet made a picture pretty enough to paint. After a while bunny
became very troublesome, and ate the paper off the dining-room
wall as high as he could reach. Then he was sent away, and Jet
seemed lonely for days. Soon after he disappeared, and my pets
since have been birds and dogs, but none were brighter and
prettier than Jet and Charley.

AGGIE R. H.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

The alligator I told you about [Post-office No. 19] was finally
found in a dark corner of the cellar. It only lived two days after
we found it.

PUSS.

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ISHPEMING, MICHIGAN.

In a late number of YOUNG PEOPLE, Edwin A. H. wrote about his
cabinet of curiosities, and inquired if any other readers had one.
I would like to tell him that my brother and I each has a small
one.

F. B. MYERS.