I am a little girl of thirteen, and my brother and I take HARPER'S
YOUNG PEOPLE, and have done so for nearly two years. I think "Mr.
Stubbs's Brother" is very nice, but I think "Toby Tyler" was
better. I am now staying at my cousin's, and we thought it would be
very nice to write to you. I have lived in America for only six
years, as I was born on the island of St. Thomas, in the West
Indies, where we had no winter, and I never saw snow until I came
here. I thought it came down in great lumps, and I was very much
surprised to see it falling in flakes. I have a dear little sister
six years old whose name is Annie, but we call her Pansy, Nannie,
or any other pet name we choose. She had a kitten, which she named
Tabby, and when we moved, papa put him in a bag and sent him to the
other house, but the next day he ran away. I am having the volume
of 1881 bound, so as not to lose any of the numbers.