nd I am going there too when it gets
cooler weather. I have a pet kitten here at home, and my papa has
got two kittens and a dog for me when I go out to the mines.

I have a doll named Goldie. My aunt sent it to me from New York
city.

I go to school, and my reading-book is the History of the United
States.

FLORENCE R.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I send two easy experiments for the chemist's club: Pour a small
quantity of common aqua ammonia in a dish; over this place a
funnel, big end down, in the tube of which place a few cut
flowers. In a little while the flowers will change color.

A very pretty experiment is this: Take a piece of ice, or in
winter a snow-ball, and dig a small cavity in it. In this hole
place a little piece of gum-camphor, and touch a lighted match to
it. It will burn a good while, and have the appearance of ice or
snow on fire.

FRED A. C.

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BARTON, MARYLAND.

I am seven years old. I go to school, and am in the Second Reader.
Our teacher takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and we love to hear her read the
stories.

I have a pet pig just as white as it can be. It likes to roll in
the mud, and then it gets black and dirty like other pigs.
Sometimes it bites my brother Harry's toes, and then I think it is
a naughty pig.

GRACIE W.

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GREENSBURG, KENTUCKY.

Here is a game for rainy evenings I made up myself. It takes two
players to play it. Player No. 1 places a chair or table in the
centre of the room, and while Player No. 2 is shut outside, he
walks round the object as many times as he pleases. Then Player
No. 2 is called in, and will tell how many times his companion has
walked round the object.

The way to do it is this: When Player No. 2 is told to go outside,
he must hesitate a little, and perhaps say something in a careless
way to divert suspicion. Then Player No. 1 will tell him to go
three or four times. It is understood between the two players that
so many times as Player No. 2 is told to go, so many times will
Player No. 1 walk round the object; and if the players are
skillful, it is impossible for the spectators to detect in what
way they understand each other.

If any o