I have read your nice paper for a year, and I like it very much.
Last winter we were snowed in for a week, and could not drive out
at all. The men had to take shovels and shovel the roads, and were
two or three days doing it. The people would drive over the worst
of the drifts, and then turn back when they got where the roads
were good, for fear of finding worse drifts. I had a pet bird named
Dickie. I often used to let him come out of the cage, and fly
around the room. I did so one day, and forgot him when I went
out-doors. I came back to look for him, but I could not find a
feather. I don't know whether the cat caught him or what happened
to him, but we never found him again.
Mr. Lossing, the gentleman who sometimes writes for HARPER'S YOUNG
PEOPLE, lives only a little way from us. He is a very intelligent
person. His stories are very interesting, especially his history. I
have also been very much interested in Mr. Otis's stories. I think
that "Toby Tyler" is better than "Tim and Tip."