Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 Part 7

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

I am six years old. My cousin, who lives with me, has taken YOUNG PEOPLE since the first number. My sister is writing this for me, because I can not write very well yet, but I tell her just what to say.

I have lots of pets. I live in Chicago, not far from the Park, where I go to ride in a little goat-cart drawn by two goats that my uncle Will gave me last Fourth of July, which was my birthday.

I have a pet canary which I have made very tame by catching it and making it accustomed to being handled. Now it is so tame that it will come when I call, "Goldy, Goldy," even if it is in another room. It also does many funny tricks. It will pull all the pins out of the cus.h.i.+on, and the hair-pins from mamma's hair.

I have a parrot which talks French, because we got it in France, when we were there winter before last; also, a little white kitten named Snowdrop, which always goes to sleep with Cecil, my dog.

My uncle has three horses, and one is so small and gentle that I am learning to ride him.

I like to read the other children's letters in the Post-office Box, and I can read them myself, except the long words.

My papa is in China. He sent me a little silk dressing-gown last Christmas, and a tea-set.

I have learned to speak "Bofe dem Chillun's White," and mamma and I think it is lovely.

CLARENCE D.

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

I am but a tiny baby, but my mamma takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me--so she says; but when I grab it to cut my teeth on it, my mamma grabs it away, which don't seem as if it were much mine.

I live in Rochester, and I am in a farm-house near the lake for the summer. The lake air is good for little babies.

I go all over the farm in my little carriage, sometimes 'way out in the field to see the cow from which I get milk fresh twice a day. The man who takes care of her calls her Betsy, but my mamma, who is a Baltimorean, calls her Madame Bonaparte, because she was brought to the farm just after Madame Bonaparte's death. I feed her on bread and sugar, to pay for her milk.

When I get bigger I'm going to be like Thackeray's little girl in the Rose and the Ring. I'm going to "dance and sing, and do all sorts of t'ing," and write you a real big letter.

"BABY HELEN."

NEW YORK CITY.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I like it very much. I like the story "For Mamma's Sake" best of all. I have no brothers or sisters, but I have a pet canary I call Beauty.

Another little girl wrote that she had one by that name. Mine is very tame. I have only lived in the city about eight months. I always lived in the country, in Connecticut. I like it better than the city. I am eleven years old.

MYRTLE E. S.

SALEM, OHIO.

I have tried Puss Hunter's recipe for cake, and it was very nice.

I am going to try R. C. W.'s recipe for candy, in YOUNG PEOPLE No.

28. I hope it will be a success.

I expect to have a young turtle given to me soon, and I should like to tame it, if I can. Is there any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE who can tell me how to tame a turtle?

I have a great many dolls, and I think a good deal of them all. I have a wax doll named Maud, and a china doll named Nellie, and another named Linnie. I like Nellie better than all the rest.

JESSIE B.

YOUNG PEOPLE is a very welcome visitor at our house. I like especially the pieces ent.i.tled "Easy Botany." I would like very much to exchange roots and seeds of wild flowers with any correspondents of our Post-office Box.

FRANCES M. HEATON, Flus.h.i.+ng, Long Island.

FITCHBURG, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

My father has taken HARPER'S WEEKLY twenty-three years, and has it all bound. Now I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and at the end of the year I am going to have my paper bound too. I have a little baby brother, three months old, and I think he is cunning. I also have a new cart, made in Leominster. I go to school, and every Friday night I go to grandma's, and stay over Sat.u.r.day.

CHARLES H. P.

SAUGUS, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

I am seven years old. I live on the bank of a river and at the foot of a hill. Some of the rocks that surround us are full of red jasper, and parties come from the cities near by to gather specimens. I go to the sea-sh.o.r.e every summer together with my two little sisters. We pick up lovely stones and sh.e.l.ls. My pets are twenty little black and white chickens, and a nice kitty named Tabby Gray. I made a doll's cake by Puss Hunter's recipe. It was very nice indeed.

GERTRUDE H. N.

CONCORDIA, KANSAS.

I made cake from the recipe given by Bessie L. S. in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 28, and thought it very nice. But I think I put a little too much egg in it.

I send a recipe for crullers for Puss Hunter's Cooking Club: One heaping cup of sugar; half a cup of sweet milk; one table-spoonful of lard; three eggs well beaten; one heaping tea-spoonful of baking-powder; flavor with cinnamon or lemon. I read all the letters in the Post-office Box.

GRACE MYRTLE G.

This little housewife forgot to state the amount of flour required to complete her recipe; but any little girl's mamma will say how much is necessary to make the batter stiff enough for crullers.

BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

Here is a recipe for ginger-cake that I send to Puss Hunter's Cooking Club: One cup of mola.s.ses; half a cup of b.u.t.ter; half a cup of water; two cups of flour; two tea-spoonfuls of ginger; one tea-spoonful of soda.

EMMA B.