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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
for i\jt bmmg. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Deak Uncle Mark: I want to be a Cousin. 
I am eight years old. My sister takes the 
Rural; I love to read the letters. Pa has 
two colts, he is breaking one. I have two 
kittens, one black and white, the other gray 
and white. I had a pet hen. She would fly 
on Pa’s shoulder when he came in the house 
to get something to eat. Pa would always 
feed her. She died last fall, and the boys 
wanted her lor fox bait, but I would not let 
them have her. We buried her back of the 
house. I have five brothers and two sisters. 
I pieced a bed-quilt before I was five years 
old. We live back in the woods; we can get 
beech nuts and spruce gum. My sister is the 
only one tbrt takes the Rural in this place. 
This is my first letter; don’t throw it in the 
waste-basket. I don’t go to school, we live so 
far away, but my sister hears my lessons. 
Ma is sick; I try to help her all I can. 
Your niece, Gertie turner. 
North River, N. Y. 
[[ am glad you did not let the hen go for 
bait.—u. m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y. H. C., if you will let me. I have four 
brothers and two sisters. We planted 15 acres 
of corn, which yielded an awfully large crop. 
The corn was of a superior kind named Gol¬ 
den Beauty and Learning. School has com 
menced, but I do not go. The teacher has 
not got much education, so we all study 
at home. It snowed about six inches here, 
but it is about all melted. We have warm 
days and cold nights. All of us together 
have about 285 head of cattle, but we lost 20 
calves. We killed a beef steer yest< rday; it 
was only a yearling, but was awfully fat. 
Delia Co., Col. INEZ G. HAMMOND. 
[I am sorry about that school.—u. M.J 
Dear Uncle Mark: We have school now. 
We had school for about six weeks,but we did 
not like the teacher, and they were going to 
discharge her, but she went before they had a 
chance, and now they have a good teacher, 
we all think. I feel very proud because our 
new teacher gives me the praise of trying to 
be the best scholar. 1 think Andersonville 
Violets is a nice story. Sammy is studying 
as fast as he can, so he can write you a letter. 
We have a little colt that we call Floia 
Sammy and I take up her feet and play shoe 
her. We can lead her all about with a halter. 
She is the nicest colt we have seen about here. 
Your niece, 
Parker, Col. ida m. davidson. 
[We want the letter from Sammy, by all 
means ] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have a little gun, 
44 Winchester. The barrel has been cut off. 
1 have killed three deer with it this year. 
I never shot a gun before 1 came here. The 
deer I killed this week were both bucks. One 
Papa said was the biggest one of the kind 
called white-tailed, he ever saw in this coun¬ 
try. It made me feel pretty big, when I saw 
him drop. I killed another small, one the 
same day. The large one had prongs on his 
horns, six on each side. Papa is shipping 
deer to Spokane Falls now. I was always 
sick when we lived in Tennessee, but since we 
came here I have felt well. I never cough 
at all now. My little gun was a present to 
me. I have a brother 18 years old. When we 
first came here he was in a tree watching a 
deer lick. He saw an old bear with cubs 
come under the place. She was li e a cow. He 
slipped down out of the tree and ran home, 
she after him growling and showing her ugly 
teeth. Tuat was two years ago: I don’t think 
he would run now. We lived near Nashville, 
Tenn., and there are no wild animals there. 
I do hope you will forgive me for writiug 
such a long letter. I do want to be a great 
man some day. We have no school. Mamma 
teaches us at home, but when I hunt I am too 
tired to study. The snow will soon be so 
deep I will have to stay at home. 
Yours truly, willie m. long. 
Sand Point, Idaho. 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 have not written to 
you in a year; and never but three times. 
You are so kind to print them all. Fearing 
you might forget all about me I thought 1 
would write once more. I shall not forget you, 
for every week I look over our Rural to see 
what I can find from you and the Cousins. 
Mamma likes Andersonville Violets, but I like 
Cousins’ letters better. I’ve not seen any 
letters from them in a long time. How do 
you get along without your cat? ’Twas too 
bad about it. Have you found one to take 
its place? I talked of sending you one but did 
not know how. I am ten years old. I go to 
school in a new school house now. Did I tell 
you our old one burned down last February? 
Your niece, 
HATTIE BELLE HOTCHKISS. 
[We have a new cat named Clover. She is 
very smart. We don’t think there is another 
like her.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: We have 12 horses, 
including the colts. We have also one donkey 
and 10 milch cows and 12 calves. We have al¬ 
so 150 chickens and seven ducks. I like to 
read the Rural and Cousin’s* letters very 
mu'-h, and the story Andersonville Violets, is 
splendid. I will go to school this winter. I 
did not go to school very much last year as I 
had to stay at home and take care of my lit 
tie brother while the others were out in the 
field doing the work. We had lots of nice 
flowers last summer and I guess we would 
have had more if it had not been so dry. 
Sherrills Mound, Iowa. efeie born. 
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