ise straight up on one side. There are
rocks on some, and on others trees. We have two ponies, and when
we go hunting, they let me ride on one of them. When they shoot
anything, I go and bring it back to the buggy.

EVA S. T.

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JEFFERSON BARRACKS, MAINE.

I am a poor boy. I lived with an officer here, and I was so fond
of reading the daily papers and other things that his wife kindly
subscribed for YOUNG PEOPLE for me, and I like it very much. I
live in the woods, and I caught nineteen wild rabbits this winter
in traps. I tried to tame some of them, but I could not. I wish
you would tell me how to tame them.

JOSEPH D.

Have any of our correspondents had experience in taming wild rabbits?

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GRAHAMVILLE, OKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA.

I am a little boy eight years old, and a subscriber to YOUNG
PEOPLE. I made the money myself that paid for the subscription. I
live away down in Florida, and during the winter months I sell
flowers and curiosities to the Northern visitors. I have made
twenty dollars this season. I don't go to school now, but my mamma
and papa teach me at home. I have a handsome scroll-saw, and can
make nice brackets. I had a shepherd dog, but it died. I want to
take YOUNG PEOPLE till I am a grown-up man.

TURNER E.

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DAVENPORT, IOWA.

I want to tell you something about myself. My papa was an
American. When he was young, he went to Florence, Italy. There he
met my mamma, who was an Italian lady, and married her. I was born
in Florence. When I was five years old we moved to Spain. Then I
learned the Spanish language. Papa taught me to speak English. We
staid in Spain one year, and then moved to America, and came out
here. We had not been here long when mamma--poor dear
mamma!--died. Then papa went back to Italy, and left me with Aunt
Esther. He died while he was there, and now I am an orphan. I am
eleven years old, and I can speak and write Italian, French,
Spanish, and English, and I am studying German now. I want to be
an artist some day, and go back to Italy, and make my name
renowned. A friend here gives me YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it so
much! Please put some nice pictures in it for me to draw.

AURORA.