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I take YOUNG PEOPLE from a news dealer in Jacksonville. I like
"Toby Tyler" and "The Cruise of the 'Ghost'" the best of all the
stories.
I live on an orange grove on the St. Johns River. I read the story
of Coachy in No. 50, and the letter of Bessie Rathbun in No. 87. I
have a Coachy that will eat out of my hand. My brother had one, but
she ran away, and we never could find her. We have a little dog
named Jetty. She is black and tan. I have a Coachy rooster also.
My little brother has a yellow hen that we raised, and he calls her
Greeny. Whenever he tries to catch her, she stops right still till
he has her. She always pecks anything he is eating. She used to lay
in the house, but she don't now, because we won't let her.
I have a large copper cent of 1818 and one of 1819; also, some
Florida moss, water from the St. Johns, and an ounce of soil. I
will exchange any of these things for foreign stamps, coins, Indian
relics, and curiosities of any kind.
F. C. SAWYER, Beauclerc Bluff, Fla.
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