The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-11-23

papa's name is Uriah I picked my first
cotton this year ] never saw cotton grow
before. | can do many different kinds of
house work, also outdoor work Nam
mas health being 50 broken so long that
/ have learned to do many household
duties such rs slIimming milk, churnng,
sweeping. busting. ironing; can cook
some things and can make pies and can
knit; have washed dishes ever since I
was years old. l am very anxious for
some good lady to offer me such home
rs she would make for a child of her
very own, a home that there Is no other
children in it, With love for all I hid
you adieu-
Emma Hutto. Alur. S. c.. r. f. D.
No. 2-I will be delighted to chat with
you all once more. 1t has been some
time since / gave you a call. AS it's
raining this afternoon and N shut in
I'll try my hand again. / enjoy read
ing the nice interesting letters from the
cousins from different states and discuss
ing various subjects. It's so nice to have
4 page of their own. People in this sec
ton are about done gathering crops and
schools are opening. Our school has been
going on a month Guess the cousins
a1e anticipating a grand time Christmas.
Hope they Will not be disappointed. Best
wishes for all
Papa takes The Constitution and / like
it SO much. This being my FIRST appear
ance into your happy band. b won't stay
long for fear l viii find my way to
waste basket You will ask where l live.
My home is in old Mississippi. You have
read of my state OF perhaps been here. l
live on the farm. | like this life very
much. Here we have nature in all its
phases. I'm proud of being Il southern
girl ! mako my pin money teaching
school My school will begin next Mon
day. | like teaching very Well. | try
every day to impress the little pupils
about things divine as well as literary
training. / like to read the cousins let
ters from Georgia, as my father came
from there. ] long. oh. / long to visit the
old state of his birth and breathe the
baImy air that comes from the ole south
ern fields of his childhood. | viii APP
preciate letters from any OF yoa.
Pearl Thompson, Gainesville, Ca, Route
4.-Dear junior: l visited your happy band
once before and enjoyed my visit SO
much | thought l would come again
Rowena Tarpley, l win join YOU in the
love of school. our school VIII begin by
the first Of December. / think education
is one of the grandest things on earth
If it was not for education We would
know nothing OF the great earth on which
we live. There are a great many things
that cannot be accomplished without edu-
caJion 50 ] think We shoula strive TO
OBTAIN one. | have no pets except a cat
whose name is 'Tabay.' How many Of
the cousins have brothers Or sisters living
far away from home. / have q brother
in Delaware. He has just been gone two
weeks ard We miss him very much. With
. lot of love, y Kind farewell. Would
like correspondence from Delaware.
Garland Thompson. Gainesville, Ga,
Route Al am 9 years old ana can do
a great many little things to help my
father with his farm work oar school
Will begin the first Of Decem6y. / love
to go to school and am in the tnlrd grade.
How many OF the little boys love 10 go
hunting. ! do for one especially 'possum
hunting. ] have no pets except a little
pig. t is black, with yellow spots on it,.
! attend two Sabbath schools every sun
day. | belong TO Lebanon Methodist
church. The inhabitants Of what state
are called the blue hens chickens" and
why SO called?
Edlie o. Turner, Moorefeld. Ark-Dear
Junior: And this is another brisht and
sunny October day, but winter win soon
be here with its dreary months 50 cola.
And Christmas the dearest time Of the
year, viii soon he here to gladden. the
hearts OF the children both far and near.
Then comes the beginning OF a new yea.
"a glorious 9o4. Yes, I'm from the
country, too, whore the birds sing SO
sweetly in the falling oc the year and
where the air is pure, the dearest place
OF all But now tho trees are shedding
their autumn coat Of brown ana The lii
TIE BIRDS, | know, are wishing that the
cold, bad times OF winter would never
come. think that every boy and girl
should spend al their idle time III read
Ing some gO0d books or newsuapers I
Like to read good books ana novels also.
news and story papers such as The Com
stitution and The Sunny South | viii
close BY asking question: What verse
In the Bible contains all the alphabet
but the letter - Correspondence solic-
tied. either sex, about my age boy
Of 10
Della NJ. Haymaker. Armel. Ya.-Doar
Junior: Oh, say. aren't disappointment
provoking? Especially when ones lust
bent" on certain thing, YOU know
There's protracted meeting fin prog
ress In town near here and q crowd of
rs Intended going tonight, bat, as usual.
it's raining. and now Wen have to
call OFF the trip til another time but
shant get the blues about H. for I'll
call on you Junior boys ana Girls tonight
and see If any of you recogntze or re-
member me. It's not been very long ago
since my first and last letter appeared.
Oh, no. it hasn't been year vet so 7
guess some of YOU have faint recouec-
tion of me anyway.
| haven't long TO stay, bur while IN
here, if you don't mind listening IN tell
you something OF myself as a grille"
sportsman.
Our hunting season has just opened,
you know, and to be sure l helped cela-
brate the occasion, though I haven any
thing TO show for The DAYS sport but
badly used up hand. There were only
two girls in our crowd ara almost the
first thing the other girl did was TO
walk right through the middle of a
swamp, gust 10 get some bGTs on" she
said adding, 1T wouldn't look half Ike
hunting without them but let ne tell
you, before she had gone fer she realized
there was no necessity OF wading through
s"amps to get them. and was gao
enough for us TO sit down while she pick
ed some off.
For nearly an hour game was invis-
ible. there being nothing in sight that
wore feathers except a bunch Of ca awning
CT ows, 50, to break the monotony / fired
IT. their drection-but-er--t didn t
seem to mind much and seemed in no
hurry whatever, rs they scared lazily
away overhead. But scarcely had the
ringing report died ant when our dog
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