I have a Cashmere goat and two wagons. The goat is entirely white. His name is Billee G. Taylor. I have painted his horns with gold paint, and it makes him look beautiful. He eats everything, from old shoes down to grass, newspapers, leather, and especially dry beech and sycamore leaves, but he will not touch maple leaves. Isn't it funny?
Many copies of YOUNG PEOPLE are sent to Culleoka every week, and yet I have never seen a letter from here. We use YOUNG PEOPLE in school instead of Readers. I am very much interested in "Tim and Tip." Please tell Jimmy Brown to write some more of his troubles; I enjoy reading his letters so much. I can work the Labyrinth Puzzle.
P. S.--I put in something for the Daisy Cot.
I used YOUNG PEOPLE as a Reader for two sessions, and liked it better than any Reader I ever used. At examination we had to write off as much of "Toby Tyler" as we could remember. Why is it that editors like you to write on only one side of the paper? I like Friday to come, because YOUNG PEOPLE arrives on that day. I have worked the Labyrinth Puzzle. I live in Nashville, at the Vanderbilt University, but am now attending school in Culleoka.
Addie's contribution has been sent to Miss Fanshawe, the Treasurer of St. Mary's Free Hospital. In reply to Susie, the reason why editors prefer correspondents to write on one side of the paper, and not on both, is a twofold one. It is mainly for the convenience of printers that the request is made, because sometimes ten or a dozen printers are setting the type for an article at the same time. The pages are divided, and assigned to different compositors as "copy," and the article can be set up much more rapidly if the writing is on one side only of the paper. Sometimes a page has to be cut in two when there is much need for haste. Editors, who are very busy people, can read manuscript which is written in this way with more ease than if it were otherwise. As they read, they do not need to turn their leaves, but can lay them down as they get to the end of each.
I like the letters in the Post-office Box very much. I have a brother nine years old, and we have three pets--two kittens, one we call Topsy and the other Spotsy, and a large Newfoundland dog. Every morning he brings papa his paper before he is up out of bed, and we play hide and seek with him, and he runs to papa and puts his face in his arms, and waits until we call "Ready," and then hunts until he finds us.