* * * * *
This dear little fellow who feeds the sparrows forgot to print his
address at the top of his letter. It is a very nice letter
notwithstanding:
I can not write good, so I will have to print my letter. I like
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE better than any of my story-books. I have
about two hundred pets. You could never guess what they are, so I
will tell you; they are sparrows, and they are so tame that they
will come and perch on the window-sill and look for me to feed
them. I give them bread every day. Sometimes, if I do not see them,
they go around to the dining-room windows, and peep for me to come.
They have a nest inside our garret window.
I wish Jimmy Brown would write and tell what he got for his
Christmas. I hope his stocking was full. I got lots of nice things
from Santa Claus. Good-by.