I am a little boy six years old. I have not taken HARPER'S YOUNG
PEOPLE very long, but I like it very much. I have a pet cat which I
call Nero. I have also nine bantams; one I call Gyp, and I often
bring him in the house and set him on the back of a chair, and then
I say to him, "Crow, Gyp," and then he crows very loud. My pa has a
farm about two miles from the village where we live. We often drive
over there, and I enjoy it very much. I have no brothers nor
sisters, but I have a nice little playmate named Edward, who lives
across the street. I am just beginning to write a little, but not
well enough to write myself, so I told mamma what to write.