Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 Part 6

LEADVILLE, COLORADO.

We live 'way up in Leadville, in the Rocky Mountains, ten thousand feet above the level of the sea. Although it is very cold here, some people live in tents all the year round. We live where we can see the snow on the range of the Rocky Mountains all summer. We have a little shepherd dog that eats candy. We like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and watch eagerly for its coming. I am eleven years old, and Susie is ten.

CLARA AND SUSIE J.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

We have a great many pets. We have a nice gray mare and a pony, both named Nell, and a little colt a week old that we call Cyclone. He is a cunning little fellow, and pretends to eat hay like his mother. We have lots of chickens of all kinds. I have some little white bantams, and my brother has some game bantams.

My oldest brother keeps fancy chickens.

S. V. B.

PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA.

I read the letter of Arthur N. T. about gophers. They are very numerous where I live. I kill them sometimes, but they are very shy. I have a large gray cat that catches a great many of them.

The wild flowers bloom here about the first of March. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it very much. I learn lots of things from it, too. I live so far away that I do not get it till almost two weeks after it is published.

O. A. H.

WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT.

I found a great number of flowers in May, but I do not think you will print my list of names, for mamma says it is too long, and would take up too much s.p.a.ce in YOUNG PEOPLE. One day when I was hunting for flowers in the woods, I found a turtle marked "L. E.

1816."

HARRY H. M.

We are pleased to see that you take such an interest in botany, for it is a beautiful study, but as your list contains the names of thirty-seven different flowers, it is a little too long to print, especially as many of them are given in the paper on "Easy Botany," in No. 29.

LAREDO, TEXAS.

I live 'way out on the Rio Grande. I like to read the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE. I have two pet pigeons, one blue and one white. I would like to know how to catch and tame birds. My kite, which you told me how to make, was a success.

WILLIAM C.

TROY, OHIO.

I had a water turtle that I wanted to pet. I kept it in a bucket of water, and it would swim round and round, and try to get out.

When I would take it out, it would creep toward the river. I felt sorry for it, and my brother put it back in the river again. I tried Puss Hunter's recipe, and think it real nice. I am going to send a recipe for her club some time.

BERTHA D. A.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

Papa takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me, and I like it so much! I have a little sister who is very much interested in fancy-work, and she wishes to know if you will not give some instructions for making some fancy and at the same time useful articles for an old lady. I had some rabbits, and one bit me. I have tried f.a.n.n.y S.'s recipe for caramels, and I like it very much. I have a little dog, but he eats very little. Can any one tell me what is the matter with him?

TOM G.

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

I take great pleasure in letting you know that I am one of the many readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I am a little Scotch girl, but can remember nothing of my country. I have become crippled since coming to America, and I enjoy reading very much indeed. I wish YOUNG PEOPLE much success.

MAGGIE C.

HELENA, ARKANSAS.

I wish to tell you of an entertainment which was given by our Sunday-school. We called it a Bazar, because we had ever so many pretty things, made by the Sunday-school children, to sell. There was a nice stage in the hall where we had the Bazar, and we had a pretty little exhibition. Some of us represented an art gallery.

We had pictures and statues. I represented a statue. We made over one hundred dollars, and we are going to buy a new library for the Sunday-school with the money.

JULIA S.

NEW LONDON, NEW YORK.

I like the letters in Our Post-office Box best of all, and read every one of them myself, but as I am only six years old, I can not write very well, so I have asked mamma to write for me. My father has taken HARPER'S big paper many years, and when the first YOUNG PEOPLE came, I coaxed him to subscribe for it for me.

We live on a nice, pleasant farm in Oneida County, and have all kinds of domestic animals. My pets are a pair of pure white twin calves, just alike. My brother climbed a tall tree in the woods yesterday, and brought down four young crows, which he killed, and hung in the corn field to scare away the big crows.

WALTER C. R.

The following letter will be welcome to the many inquirers for this little flower girl of the Pacific coast:

When my letter was published in YOUNG PEOPLE, I was away from home, and I have only just now seen it in print. I am sorry the prettiest flowers of the valley are gone, but I have a few pressed that I will send to each address, and I will ask some of my friends to send me some of the mountain flowers.

GENEVIEVE HARVEY, Galt, Sacramento County, California.

My father has a nice cabinet of minerals, corals, sh.e.l.ls, Indian relics, and other things. I would like to exchange spar of different colors, iron ore, and other minerals, with some little girls, for pressed flowers and sh.e.l.ls. I have a great many flowers, and this fall, when the seed gets ripe, I would like to exchange flower seeds.