I am eight years old. I am writing this with my left hand, because my right arm is broken. I have broken it three times.

I had a little turtle, but it died. Now I have a pet goat.

HARRY D. F.

HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

I wish to tell Kittie G. that I tried her recipe for b.u.t.terscotch, and found it splendid. I am glad she liked mine. I also tried f.a.n.n.y S.'s recipe for caramels, and it was very nice.

REBECCA H.

I am five years old, and can not write myself, but my sister is writing for me, and I tell her what to say. I have some pet Plymouth Rock chickens, and they are all named. My brother Wilton has four beautiful pet pigeons, and one of them is making a nest.

I have four cats, and a setter pup named Dash. Uncle Jimmie lives with us, and takes YOUNG PEOPLE for my brothers, Wilton and Eddie, and myself, and we all like it very much. Wilton reads everything in it.

I have some beautiful morning-glories that have been blooming ever since the first of June, and I will send some seed to any little boy or girl who would like some, and will send me their address.

MARY EARLE, Evergreen, Anderson County, South Carolina.

DENVER, COLORADO.

I am very much obliged for my nice little paper, YOUNG PEOPLE. My uncle gave it to me for a Christmas present, and it amuses mamma and me very much.

My only pet is a nice canary. When I let him out of the cage he flies and picks the buds off from mamma's plants.

We can see the snow on the mountains all the time here where I live. I am twelve years old.

LULU.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

I am seven years old. I like to read the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE so much that I want to write one myself. I live in a large orange grove. It is a lovely place, and summer lasts all the year.

My pet is a hen named Tinny. She is so tame I can pick her up anywhere. She has eleven little chickens now. I can not write very well, for I have been to school only eight months.

NELLIE E. C.

MONTICELLO, NEW JERSEY.

I think YOUNG PEOPLE is the nicest little paper that I ever saw.

The only pet I have is a dear little baby sister. I am eleven years old, and I have been to a private school two years.

My papa is an editor, and in a year or two I am going to study stenography so that I can report for his paper.

I have two younger brothers, and we are all learning to swim. I can take fifteen strokes.

GEORGE E. W.

NETHERWOOD, NEW JERSEY.

Here is a recipe for cookies for Nellie E. O.: One cup of b.u.t.ter; two cups of sugar; one cup of milk; one egg; one tea-spoonful of royal baking powder; a little grated nutmeg; flour enough to make it very stiff. Roll very thin. These cookies will keep good a long time. I have made them, and I know they are good. I am twelve years old.

EVA LOUISE P.

May M. Vinton, Mabel Lowell, Alberta F. Morrill, and K. R. send very nice recipes for candy, but they are so very similar to recipes already published that we can not make room for them. We would request the young housekeepers to avoid repet.i.tion as much as possible, for while we thank them all for their favors, we can only print such recipes as are new.

I would like to exchange for some birds' eggs a collection of Christmas, New-Year, and birthday cards, about sixty in number, and all in good order. Most of them are as good as new. If some correspondent would write to me, stating the number and the varieties of eggs he would be willing to exchange with me, we might agree on terms.

VANCE MARTIN, 243 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

I am ten years old. My aunt takes HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for my sister and myself.

I would like to exchange pressed leaves and flowers with some little girl in California.

MAUD EVERETT, Newark, Delaware.

I am collecting different kinds of seeds, and I would like to exchange them with any correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE. We have only purple and white larkspurs, and if Mary Lowry has any other colors, I will gladly exchange pink seed for them.

DOTTY SEAMAN, Richmond, Staten Island, New York.

Some boys, friends of mine in this part of Brooklyn, are going to start a young chemists' club, and I desire recipes for simple experiments from any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

I also send a recipe for Puss Hunter's cooking club. Currant ice-cream: one table-spoonful and a half of currant jelly or juice; one cup of sugar; one pint of sweet cream; the juice of one lemon. Stir until the sugar is thoroughly melted, and freeze.

I will exchange flowers, ferns, leaves, and mosses from the Long Island woods with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

CHARLIE WILLIAMSON, 293 Eckford Street, Brooklyn, New York.