or bear. I am ten years old, and I
live on an island in Boston Harbor.

MARY B. R.

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SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

I want to tell you about a baby bear I saw yesterday. A man had it
in a store. He brought it from the North Woods. It was so gentle
that mamma held it in her hands, and I took hold of its little
paw. We have two canaries, named Dick and Daisy. Daisy has made
her nest, and there are two pretty little blue eggs in it. If we
should have any little birds by-and-by, I will write and tell you
about them.

ETHEL M. L. (6 years).

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

I am nine years old. I found the answer to the Geographical Double
Acrostic in No. 18. "Sadie," the little girl who made it, is three
years older than I am, but I have studied geography the last two
years, and I think I can find out any geographical puzzle she can
make. Ask her to try again, please.

MAUD T. K.

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MUNICH, GERMANY.

I am a little girl six years old, and my name is Meta, but my
sisters call me Peter. My thirteen dolls have all funny names. My
rubber boy doll is Moses in the Bulrushes. My big rubber doll is
Pharaoh's Daughter. I live in Germany, and am learning German. I
hope next year to go back to America, and I shall be glad to see
all my friends again. I have two gold-fishes, and I feed them with
fish food. Papa bought me a microscope to look at bugs with. I am
tired, so I will stop.

META F.

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SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, _March 25, 1880_.

I wrote you last November, and told you I was lame, and confined
to the house. I am in the house still, but better. I have a
gentleman friend who comes to see me every other day, and last
week he brought me a plant which he got in the woods, called
hepatica, and it is now on my window, in bloom. It is sometimes
called liverwort. [Hepatica is a Latin word, and signifies
pertaining to the liver.] The willow "pussies" have been out here
two weeks. As I can not go out and enjoy sports like other boys, I
amuse myself by reading, and I enjoy HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE and
WEEKLY very much. I fare pretty well for a sick boy, for I take
five different periodicals.

HORACE F.