I have been wanting to write to this dear little paper for a long
time, but did not know that you published the letters of those who
did not subscribe. My papa brings me a paper regularly every week.
I have no little pets, like most children, and even if I had, I
would not have time to play with them, as I go to school, take
lessons in chenille embroidery, and practice on the piano.
I spent three months in the Eastern States last summer, and visited
a great many places in New York State, Connecticut, Ohio, and
Illinois. I saw many wonderful beauties of nature, among which was
the Devil's Slide, which was two perpendicular walls one hundred
feet high, and twenty feet apart, coming down the steep side of a
mountain. The Devil's Gate is a stream of water flowing under a
mountain. Witches' Rocks are five rocks that look like ladies.
Pulpit Rock is the place where Brigham Young preached his first
sermon in Utah. They are both in Echo Canon, which is a canon that
throws the echo back when you speak very loud. Cape Horn is in
California, and is a mountain rising up from the American River
about 2500 feet, and has a railroad cut around the side of it. I
wish all the readers of the YOUNG PEOPLE could see all the
beautiful things I did last summer.
I will exchange some pretty shells, stones, advertising cards,
unpressed sea-moss, or a small piece of petrified wood, for
fossils, minerals, stalactites, stalagmites, foreign stamps, old
coins, or flint. Please write before sending.