As you kindly invited us all to write to you, I would like to tell
you about a pet pigeon I had. I called it Lily, because it was so
white. I got it when it was a little bit of a thing, and I did not
keep it in a cage. I taught it to eat out of my hand, and when I
came from school and called Lily, it would come flying from the
barn-yard, where it was with the other pigeons, and light on my
shoulder, and put its bill up to my mouth. One day I called Lily,
and it did not come. I went to look for it in the barn-yard myself.
It was there, but it would not come to me, and always after that it
was wild. I think HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is a very nice paper, and
mamma thinks she will take it for me. My papa has taken HARPER'S
WEEKLY and MONTHLY ever since they were in existence.