Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 Part 6

I thought I would write you a letter to let you know how I like _Young People_. Grandpa takes it for me. I am only eight and a half years old. Grandpa is going to copy this, as I can not write very well.

EDGAR. E. HYDE.

NEW YORK CITY.

I am only five years old, and can not read or write yet, but my nurse reads me the stories in _Young People_ every week, and I like them very much, and the pictures and the letters; and papa says I ought to send you a letter, and tell you how much I like it. So does my little sister Lulu, and she is only three years old, and I have got a little brother only three weeks old, but he hasn't any name yet. I told papa I would send a letter, but I could not write it, and he said it would be fair if Nurse Belle would write, only I must tell her what to put in--I and n.o.body else--and so I did it.

LIZZIE F.

LANSING, MICHIGAN.

A few days ago I was walking with a friend when we saw a rabbit in the road. We ran to catch it, but could not, for it ran too.

Suddenly it stopped. My friend whistled, and then it ran right up to her, and we caught it. I suppose that rabbits like music.

LAURA B.

NEWTON, NEW HAMPs.h.i.+RE.

I am going to tell you about a b.u.t.terfly my brother Willie brought in from the woods this winter. It flew about the rooms for a few days, till one morning he seemed almost dead. Mamma took him to the door, and he flew away up over our barn and some great tall pine-trees. I am ten years old this winter.

L. MABEL MARSTON.

What color were the b.u.t.terfly's wings, and how large was it?

HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

I once had a pet rabbit. He was gray and white, and I named him Mac, after papa. Once I gave him a peach, and another rabbit ran away with it; then he stood up on his hind-legs and begged for another.

HARRY F.

George D. B. and Cora B. E., both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also write of pet rabbits, and Spitz and Newfoundland dogs.

NEW YORK CITY.

I have a chicken that I hatched out by putting the egg in ashes.

While I am writing this letter it is sitting on my hand. When I call it, it comes to me. I have also four white mice, which are as tame as the chicken. I did have a squirrel, but it died. I wish you would tell me how to feed my mice.

JOSEPH P.

White mice will eat nuts of all kinds, canary-seed, and various other grains. They will also nibble bread and cake. They must have plenty of water, and like a little milk now and then. They should be given a soft, warm nest of dry moss or of flannel.

J. G. D.--In all rooms where meal is kept, the worms generally breed much faster than they are wanted. The meal-moth is very pretty. Its fore-wings are light brown, with a dark chocolate-brown spot on the base and tip of each. It is often to be seen clinging to the ceiling of kitchen or store-room, with its tail curved over its back. This moth deposits its eggs in the meal, and in a short time the worm is hatched, which soon forms itself into a coc.o.o.n, from which the moth again comes forth. You may find this worm crawling in old flour barrels or some box in which meal has been kept; and if you keep a box of meal standing open in some warm place, the moth will be very likely to find it, especially in the summer-time, and use it as a deposit for her eggs. Meanwhile you can feed your mocking-birds on meal and milk, mixed now and then with very fine chopped raw beef and with bits of fruit. You can also buy prepared food for them. Be sure to give them plenty of clean gravel in the bottom of the cage.

"SUBSCRIBER," Moline, Illinois.--Heph_ai_stos is the correct Greek spelling of Vulcan's name, but Heph_ae_stos is the accepted English spelling of the word. Either is correct.--The translation of _Don Quixote_ has become such a standard English work that the ordinary English p.r.o.nunciation of the name is allowable. In Spanish it is p.r.o.nounced Ke-ho-tay, with a slight accent on the second syllable.

Favors are acknowledged from Belle R., Tennessee; Willie D. V., Indiana; Robbie B. H., St. John, New Brunswick; Alpha T. E., Pennsylvania; from Illinois--Mamie Ripley, Tommy C. H., Edith Patterson, Joseph K.; from Ma.s.sachusetts--Kennie Norwood, L. Tyler P., Stanley K. H., Harry B., F. U. T.; from Ohio--Lulie H., Oscar B., Willie Gordon, Ralph M. F., Hattie Mitch.e.l.l; from Michigan--Nellie M. C., L. A. Waldron, Edward D. E.; from New York--Fred L. Colwell, A. M. Tucker, D. C. Gilmore; Eddie R. Derwart, Toronto, Canada.

Correct answers to puzzles received from Walter S. Dodge, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.; Merton L. T., Ma.s.sachusetts; James A. S., Connecticut; Sallie V. B., Nebraska; L. A. W., Canada; Harry Lewis, Kentucky; C. M. J., Ohio; from Pennsylvania--R. O. Lowry, George N. Hayward, Walter Lowry, Chester B. F., Florence M.; from New Jersey--K. H. Talbot, Otto M. Rau; from California--Violet A. Francis, F. T. Swett; from New York--H. G.

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