I wrote to YOUNG PEOPLE once before, but not finding my letter in
print, I thought I would try again, hoping you will publish it. I
am going to tell you something real funny. One morning at
breakfast, while eating her mutton-chop, one of my friends said to
her father, "Papa, this meat tastes sheepy." The next morning they
had beef-steak, and her father said, "Do you think the meat tastes
sheepy this morning?" But her little sister, about eight or nine
years of age, said, "No; it tastes bully." Of course every one at
the table laughed. But she did not mean it for a slang expression;
she meant that it tasted sort of "beefy."