Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 Part 9

ANNIE JEAN H.

PARKVILLE, LONG ISLAND.

I have a pet hen, but she does not lay any eggs. She is a very cross hen, and she nips my fingers when I feed her. I had a little goat, but it died. My papa is going to buy me another. We have a little dog-cart, and a doll's house, and we play croquet, and swing in a swing made of chains.

CHARLIE S. R.

XENIA, OHIO.

I had YOUNG PEOPLE for a Christmas present, and I like it ever so much. It comes every Wednesday, and I am almost always the first boy at the book-store to get it. I liked the story of Frank Austin very much. He was a very brave boy.

The only pet I have is my little sister, and I pity the fellow who has not so nice a pet. She is the best one in the world. One day at the dinner table, while she was eating a piece of pie, she found a plum seed in it. All of a sudden she exclaimed, "I found a pie seed!" and she rushed out and planted it, thinking it would grow to be a tree with pies on it.

ROSCOE E. E.

NORTH NEWFIELD, MAINE.

My little cousin sends me YOUNG PEOPLE. I had a dear little kitty, but it died. Its name was Rose. Do you think it is a pretty name?

I am seven years old.

TEENIE J. B.

PRINCETON, ARKANSAS.

Brother Ben and I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and we enjoy it very much. It is a splendid paper for little folks, and I find that older people like to read it too. I am eleven years old, and I study music, drawing, and other things. Ben is thirteen, and he studies algebra, geometry, and Latin. I have a beautiful pet dog named Prince. A showman gave him to me. He will not let strangers come in the yard when he is loose. He is black, and very large.

ANNIE S. D.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I am collecting stamps. I have some French, English, Swiss, German, and American, and a lot of Treasury stamps. I have a little brother named Charlie. He can not read, but I read YOUNG PEOPLE to him, and sometimes mamma reads it to both of us. I learned to write last winter, but I never went to school.

PAUL R. H.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

I am quite sick now, and I am going to write my first letter to "Our Post-office Box." I have a large cat named Louis. At meal-times he goes right to papa, and waits for something to eat.

If papa does not notice him, he jumps up on his knee and pats his arm to remind him. Then papa always gives Louis something to eat.

I am nine years old.

GARDNER M.

HAMILTON, CANADA.

Here is a simple recipe for a jelly-cake for Puss Hunter's Club: Three eggs; a small tea-cup of sugar; one cup of flour. Beat the yolks and whites of the eggs together. This quant.i.ty makes two layers; and as it bakes in a very short time, it requires very careful watching while in the oven. Any kind of flavoring may be used.

"FATINITZA."

DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

Here is one of my own recipes for kisses: Beat the whites of four eggs to a froth; then beat in slowly two cups of white sugar.

Spread greased paper on a baking-pan, and drop the mixture on it, a spoonful at a time. Bake in an oven not too hot, until a little brown.

C. H. S.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I am ten years old. I have no pets but a dear little sister, who is as nice as all the pets in the world. I tried the recipe for sugar-candy, and found it very nice. I go to school every day.

M. H. S.

I made two flower beds a few days ago, and the hens scratched them very badly. I am eleven years old, and I go to school, and have lots of fun. I have no pets now, but I did have a pet robin that I was very fond of.

I tried Nellie H.'s recipe for making sugar-candy, and it was very nice. Here is a recipe of my own for her to try: One pound of white sugar; six table-spoonfuls of cream; one of vinegar; one of corn starch; one of melted b.u.t.ter; the white of one egg. Boil until it waxes when it is cold. It should boil about one hour.

I would like to exchange pressed flowers, both cultivated and wild, with any little girl living in the Southern and far Western United States.

ANNIE L. WOODS, Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York.

I would be very glad to gather birds' eggs to exchange with I.

Quackenboss and Samuel P. Higgins, if I knew how to preserve them and send them by mail. Can some one tell me, please? I live where there is much of the long gray moss so common in the South, and if any one would like to have some, I would be glad to exchange it for sh.e.l.ls, birds' eggs, pretty minerals, or anything of the kind.

There are many pretty flowers that grow wild here. There are blue-bonnets, _Phlox drummondi_, sweet-williams, lantana, larkspur, verbena, and fox-glove; but they have nearly all finished blooming for this year. I would like to know how to press some of them.

LULA BARLOW, Refugio, Refugio County, Texas.