I am ten years old, and I have a little pony, and her name is
Topsy. My papa says she is buckskin-color, but I think she is
golden. And I had two pet rabbits, one black and one white, and
papa had a puppy bird dog that broke loose and ate them both up,
and I could not find them. One day I went out-doors and found their
ears. We had a wild canary's nest in a maple-tree in our yard, and
mamma got one of the birds, and it sings more than our tame one. I
attend school, and study geography, arithmetic, Fourth Reader,
grammar, spelling, and writing. I am the youngest in all my
classes, but still keep a little ahead. I like the stories in YOUNG
PEOPLE very much.