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LETTERS EROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: lama little girl 11 
years old. I would like to join the Y. H. C. 
and be a cousin also. Our school was out a 
week ago last Friday. Wo had a very good 
school. My youngest brother got a prize for 
improvement in writing; it is a book entitled 
“Tom Brown at Rugby.’’ We have seven 
horses, 10 head of cattle, 03 sheep, four hogs, 
six pigs, geese, ducks, turkeys, Guinea fowls 
and about 110 hens. Don’t, you think we have 
quite a variety of poultry i I cannot say with 
the rest 1 like “The Story of a District School’' 
for 1 have never read it. I have a sister 17 
years of age that never has read a continued 
story. When I get as old as that, I wish to say 
the same of myself. From your niece, 
Ingham Co., Mich. JOSIE sntder. 
[You have a good stock of poultry. That is 
a good book. I read it long ago and liked it. 
—D M.J 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a little boy about 
nine, years old. I live on a farm of 105 acres. 
1 have two brothers and two sisters. My old¬ 
est sister is married and has three of the best 
little girls you ever saw. My brother-in-law 
is a breeder of Holstein cattle and Roland 
Chinn hogs. We raised some very large tur¬ 
nips aud sweet potatoes this year. A few of 
the musktnelons were good, but most of them 
were not; they did not ripen well. I raised 
about one-half bushel of pop-corn. We have 
four calves and one yearling, 40 pigs, four 
cows and four horses. Respectfully, 
Fountain Green, Ill. Robert l. hardin. 
[I have seen some pretty good little girls, 
so these must be pretty fine to be the best. I 
guess you think so. anyway, u. M.J 
Dear Uncle Mark; I am a boy 14 years 
old and like to read the letters from the cou¬ 
sins, aud want to join them and add my mite. 
I am living with a family by the name of 
Isaac and Eliza White. They take the Rural, 
and we all like it very much; and I like to 
live with him as be is so jolly and full of fun 
all the time, and they are very kind to me. 
We have a nice, pleasant home, a farm of 40 
acres of real good laud, situated about 12miles 
from Saginaw. This is a nice country, as we 
never fail of having good crops. For pets we 
have a splendid Holstein heifer, a beauti¬ 
ful black horse we call Billy Ironsides, and 
a little white English bulldog whose name is 
Trim. He is as full of fun as his master. 
Your nephew, chauncy beach. 
Saginaw Co., Mich. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have not written for 
so long that I am afraid you will mark me off 
the list. I went to school this winter, j 
have nearly a mile and a half to walk. I got 
the prize in my spelling class aud my brother 
got the one offered in his class. Mine was 
Tennyson’s Poems. I had to write composi¬ 
tions this winter. I think it is pretty good 
practice, hut 1 dou’t like to write them at all. 
We had about a foot of snow the 30tb of 
March, i have eight little chickens, a calf 
and sevtui sheep and four lambs. I will close 
hoping that Uncle Mark aud the Cousins did 
not get very badly fooled the first day of 
April. BLUE BELL. 
Centralia, Ill. 
[I haven’t heard from many others, but I 
was pretty lucky about the “fooling.' 1 —u. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y. H. C. I live on a farm of 320 acres. 
Pa has taken the Rural for 13 years and 
would not do without it. I help tend to the 
chores. The spring work will soon commence 
now. Last summer I reaped most all the 
grain. I am going to learn to plow this 
spring. From Your Nephew, 
Brock way Centre. CHARLES foster. 
[We want to know how you like plowing. 
—u. M.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: The birds have come 
back to us again, I had a little wild rabbit 
that my uncle caught for me and I had him 
three years, aud one night last wiuter the rats 
killed it. I have got a cat and his name is 
Pig. One day I put him in a barrel whore 
there were lots of mice and he would catch 
them aud bite their beads off. 
Lake Co., Ills. guy barnard. 
[That cat ought to have kept the rats away 
from the rabbit. Was he asleep at the time? 
—U. M.] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: I live in the County 
York, Ontario, Canada. My fa ther has taken 
the Rural for three years and likes it very 
much. I like to read the letters from the 
Cousins aud would like to join them. We live 
on a farm of 100 acres and grow principally 
wheat, oats, barley aud peas. My father has 
two acres sown with the Delhi-Mediterranean 
Wheat sent by the Rural, also two acres to 
sow with the Welcome oats. The Angel of 
Midnight Corn was fine and the melons very 
good. Last year instead of getting the Gar¬ 
den Treasures we got two packages of toma¬ 
toes and were much disappointed. 
York Co.,Ontario, Can. elmer hamiu.y. 
Dear Uncle Mark; 1 am a boy 14 years 
old. I read the Cousins’letters and like them 
very much, aud I would like to join the Y. H. 
C. I have one brother and three sisters. We 
live iu Idaho. We came from Arkansas to 
this country. We have 372 acres of land. We 
live about eight miles from town. We have 
eight head of horses and live head of cattle 
and 40 head of hogs. We have received the 
Garden Treasures. 1 have uot seen any let¬ 
ters from this Territory, so I hope I may see 
this one. Yours truly, 
Idaho Co., Idaho. marian cartlky. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have been going to 
school all winter and that has kept me pretty 
busy. I dou’t think we have such had hoys in 
our school as those Carrie Dillntush wrote 
about. The suow is most all gone, aud I 
guess we won’t have any more this winter. 
The blackbirds have come back aud 1 saw a 
robin the other morning when I was going to 
school. Our school will be out itext Tuesday, 
I like to go to school very much, but I am 
always glad wheu vacation comes. We have 
taken the Rural longer than Winnie Edith 
Rhodes, for we have takeu it, ever since Papa 
was married, and that is 2(5 years. I always 
enjoy reading the cousins’ letters. 
Your Niece, 
Freeport, Ill. annie weaver. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I think I am your 
lucky niece, for after haviug drawn the plow, 
my Grandfather gave me a Webster’s Un¬ 
abridged Dictionary with 3,000 illustrations, 
because I succeeded iu getting the plow. He 
also gave my sister Mary a book entitled 
“Little Grand motherone of Trudy’s flyaway 
stories. The plow works very nicely. Mary 
and I picked up 1,000 bushels of potatoes last 
fall. Do you thiuk that was doiug well for 
two girls 11 and 13 years old? Was not that 
doing as well as some of your nephews? We 
would pick up 40 crates, and theu come for 
the horse to draw them to tiie barn. If all 
the Elephants had been Blushes we should 
have had more potatoes to pick up, for the 
Blushes are great yielders One of our neigh¬ 
bors had 3,000 bushels of potatoes on nine 
acres of land. Maty, Zillab, Isa and I, all 
waut our names placed among the cousins 
this year. Your Niece, 
Monroe Co., N, Y. abbie ward. 
[I think the dictionary will prove a better 
implement for a girl to handle thau a plow 
ever would be. Our boys will have to work 
hard to beat that record at picking up pota¬ 
toes. People who don’t know that the White 
Elephant is a potato, und who are pretty sure 
that elephants can’t blush, might get mixed 
up a little at one of your sentences,—r. M. ] 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 wonder who reads 
those patent medicine advertisements. 1 am 
glad I am not sick so that I huve to take some 
of it. We have not had u great deal of 
cold weather, but u lot of snow. Papa has 
kept a close account of each snow fall, aud 
there have been just 136 inches. My brother 
Willie aud I have fine fun walking on snow 
shoes aud slidiug down hill ou one snow shoe. 
Could you do that, Uncle Mark? My Sister 
Edith was three years old on the 17th of 
March. She is as busy as a bee, always try¬ 
ing to help me wash dishes, make the beds, 
sweep the floor, set and clear off the table, 
sew ou the sewing machine, build fires, do the 
washiug, etc. Hattie M. Koiner, of Staunton, 
Va., may name her colt “Treasure.” I thiuk 
that would be pretty, but Mamma thinks that 
“Morning Glory” would be pretty too. Hat¬ 
tie can’cboose which she likes best. I want to 
be a good housekeeper and cook; so Mamma 
is teaching me this winter, so I can do all the 
housework next summer, if I don’t go to 
school. I am 10 years old. 
Como, M. T. CARRIE E. HARLAN. 
[I could walk on snow shoes once, but I 
guess I should trip up if I tried it now. I am 
glad you are learning to cook. 1 like all good 
cooks, you sec. I am inclined to think “Trea¬ 
sure” will be the best name for the colt. Our 
new cat is to be called Pansy. I hope our dog 
won’t kill it as he did the other oue.—u. m.] 
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