My sister and I are going to write a letter together. We have not
taken your paper very long, but like it very much. We have a little
brother only a week old, and we all love him very much. We were all
vaccinated a little while ago, and as there are nine of us
children, we had a good many sore arms. I know Ina J. P., who wrote
a letter to YOUNG PEOPLE for January 10; she lives next door to us.
We have got a very nice cat; she catches a good many rats. A
gentleman gave us a dog, but he became homesick, and cried so that
we had to let him run away.
There is quite a large silk-mill here, and the silk looks very
pretty while it is being woven. We go to school here, and like the
school very much, though it is not very large. We have not read any
of Jimmy Brown's stories, but think they must be very nice. We have
read quite a good deal about dolls in the letters to YOUNG PEOPLE,
but we don't care very much for them. We are collecting
advertisement cards, and have about two hundred and fifty. We have
a lovely grape arbor at the side of our house; it is very long, and
in the summer it is very shady there, and the vine bears splendid
grapes. We have a great big barn on our place, and we have lots of
fun playing on the high lofts.
JULIA J. B.
and EMILY L. B.
Nine children all vaccinated at once! Nine to sit under the grape arbor,
and climb the hay lofts, and have a good time generally! The baby
brother does not know what fun he will have when he is old enough to
enjoy himself with his brothers and sisters, does he? Though there are
so many of you, the Postmistress is sure father and mother could not
spare even one.
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