I am a little girl eight years old. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and like
it very much. I have a doll named Laura Martin. I live on a cotton
plantation on the Arkansas River, and I can stand on the front
gallery of our house and see all the boats that pass. We have never
been to school, and we have no governess now, so mamma has to teach
us. We have a great many pecan-nut trees here, and there is a pond
near our house with a boat on it, and my sister and I row
sometimes.