little puppies, and we have fine
times playing with them.

The other day we drove to see the highest mountain near here, and
just before we got there down came a shower. We took shelter in a
log-cabin church, but before we got inside we were all wet
through. We thought that was all the more fun, because we like to
be in the rain.

I am nine years old, and the oldest child of five.

SUE D. T.

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SAINT JOSEPH, TENSAS PARISH, LOUISIANA.

I am a little Southern girl nine years old, and I like YOUNG
PEOPLE so much! I read all the letters in the Post-office Box.

So many children write about turtles that I thought I would tell
them about one my brother had once. He said it was a pet, and one
day he went to kiss it, when it put out its head and bit his nose,
and hung on. His old black mammy told him that it would never let
go until it thundered, so he ran all around, screaming, "I wish it
would flunder! I wish it would flunder!" The noise he made
frightened the turtle so that it dropped off without waiting for
thunder.

My brother is a grown man now, living in New Orleans, and we often
laugh at him about his turtle and the "flunder."

ANNIE FLEMING L.

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I am a little girl of nine years. My papa has taken YOUNG PEOPLE
for me since the first number. I enjoy reading the children's
letters very much.

My grandma is visiting us this summer, and she has her parrot with
her. It is twenty-seven years old. It calls "Grandma" and
"Mother," and screams for its breakfast. It says "Good-by" and
"How do you do?" as plain as I can, and sings two songs, and
imitates the cat, the dog, and the rooster, and does a great many
other things.

Now I will tell the little girls what I have been doing since the
school closed. I have learned to crochet, and have made two tidies
and five yards of trimming. I am now making trimming of
feathered-edge braid, and if any little girl who can crochet would
like the pattern, I will be glad to send her a sample.

GRACIE MEADS,
Platte City, Platte County, Missouri.

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SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA.

I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it so much! I am ten years old. My
papa is out at the mines, a