We have two cats; one of them is fifteen years old; he is a pure Maltese, with the exception of a few white hairs under his chin.
We have a little gray squirrel too, and he is so tame that when my brother opens the door of his cage he will jump out and run all over him.
I should like to know if English sparrows build in trees as robins do.
DAISY R.
English sparrows build in little houses, if kind hands provide them, otherwise they seek out any cozy corner wherever there is a shelf upon which to lodge their nest. They never build in trees. You will find an article about them in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 14.
SEDALIA, MISSOURI.
I wish to tell Rebecca H. that I tried her recipe for candy, and found it just splendid. I will send Puss Hunter"s club a recipe for b.u.t.ter-scotch, and I hope Rebecca H. will also try it, and like it as well as I did hers. I wish she would let me know if she thinks it is good. Here is the recipe: Three table-spoonfuls of mola.s.ses, two of sugar, two of water, one of b.u.t.ter; add a pinch of soda before pouring out to cool.
KITTIE G.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Here is a recipe for apple-cake for Puss Hunter. Take one pint bowl of apples, pare, core, and chop them; then add three cups of cold water, one cup of sugar, one table-spoonful of b.u.t.ter. Bake about twenty minutes in a quick oven.
L. GRACE P.
Is this mixture intended as a filling for pie-crust, or as apple jam? In writing out recipes, our young housekeepers must be very careful to omit nothing, and to explain all details, as a slight error may ruin a delicious dish.
HARTFORD, OHIO.
I like HARPER"S YOUNG PEOPLE so much that I wish it would come every day.
Here is a recipe for Puss Hunter. I call it maple candy. One and a half cups of maple syrup, and one-fourth of a cup of vinegar. When I think it is done, I pour it into a b.u.t.tered dish to cool. Then I pull it till it becomes white. I tried R. C. W."s recipe for candy, and I think it is very nice. I would like to be a member of the cooking club.
We have two pet bird dogs, two robins, and a canary, and I have about seventy-five little chickens.
MAUD K.
SEDALIA, MISSOURI.
I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I like it very much.
I have a mocking-bird that is only five weeks old, and I have to feed it.
Here is a recipe for ginger cookies for the cooking club: One cup of lard; one cup New Orleans mola.s.ses; one cup New Orleans sugar; two eggs; two-thirds of a cup of boiling-hot water poured over a heaping tea-spoonful of soda, and a little salt. Ginger to taste.
ABBIE R.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
My sister and I tried f.a.n.n.y S."s recipe for caramels. The candy was very nice. Here is a recipe for Shrewsbury cake for the cooking club: One cup of b.u.t.ter; three cups of sugar; one and one-half pints of flour; three eggs; one tea-spoonful of royal baking powder; one cup of milk; one tea-spoonful of royal extract of rose. Rub the b.u.t.ter and sugar to a smooth white cream; add the eggs one at a time, beating five minutes between each; then add the flour, well sifted, with the powder and the extract. Add the milk last, and heat until the batter is light and thoroughly mixed. Bake in well-greased cake moulds about forty minutes in a quick oven.
FLORENCE MCC.
FRANK F. R. sends a recipe for caramels to the cooking club, which is the same as the one from f.a.n.n.y S. in Post-office Box No. 31, with the addition of three table-spoonfuls of flour.
RYE, NEW YORK.
We have about fifty pigeons, and a whole flock of hens, chickens, turkeys, and guinea-fowls. I have a flower garden, and some lovely rose-bushes. I wish some correspondent could tell me how to kill the rose-bugs, and how to tame my pigeons. I am nine years old.
ANNA S.
We moved up in the country the 1st of April. I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, especially the story of "The Moral Pirates," and the Post-office Box.
I have a little Shetland pony. I called her Bessy. She is less than four feet high. She likes to eat corn.
What can I feed my turtles on?
I am collecting postage stamps, and would like to exchange.
MALCOLM STUART, Rye, Westchester County, New York.
If you will read former numbers of the Post-office Box, you will find full directions for feeding turtles.
If all the readers of HARPER"S YOUNG PEOPLE like to read it as well as I do, they like it well enough to take it forever. Nearly all of the correspondents write about their pets, but I have not one, except my little baby brother, who is nicer to me than all the pets in the world. We have a few roses in bloom, but they are almost all faded now.
If John H. B., of Greensburg, Kentucky, can spare any of his flint arrow-heads, I would be very thankful for one or two, because I never saw but one in my life. I am fourteen years old.
WINIFRED J. YORK, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas.
I have been making a collection of birds" eggs for about two months, and I have forty-seven different kinds. If any one living in the far West or South would exchange eggs with me, I would be much pleased.
WALLACE ROSS, Lock Box 97, Rutland, Vermont.