MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS, — Our bundle of letters was not quite so great as last month. But I have had some interesting ones, and the one I put in my corner is by Henty Welch Paterson, aged 11 years. Harriet Howard’s was very prettily written, but she stopped too soon in the history. The next best essays are by
MINNIE MARSHALL, aged 10 years,
KATHERINE AGNES YERGETTE, 111/2 years,
MARY ANN ORMOND, 10 years.
WILLIAM S. FERGUSON, 10 years.
Absalom’s history is a very painful one. The vanity and the self-will were bad enough, but rebellion to his own father was the saddest part of the matter.