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The Elm, the maple the Poplar are used as shade trees. The Horse-Chestnut, the Mountain Ash, the Locust, are called ornamental trees- because they adorn the road-side, and make shady the play-grounds, where many little children play on sun-shining days in summer. The Apple, the Peach, the Pear, the Plum, the Cherry, the Pomegranite, these are some of the fruit-trees- and of their nice fruits we all love to partake,

                                                                                                            Jennie Lu, 

                                                Dolly's Grandmother

Dolly's grandmother was a horrid scold. When Dolly lived with her we used, to be great friends, and I used to be Dolly's confident. and she would tell me all her secrets. She said that she had to work very hard and her grandmother would scold her, and call her anything but a good girl. She used to sit in her easy chair with a huge pair of spectacles resting on the top of her nose. In those days, of course, they had no carpets; the house was old and large, the floors and ceilings were without paint and no less than three times a week every floor in the house must be neat scoured and the ceiling they too must be equally well cleaned, and that too by Dolly. And she was only fourteen years of age. Dolly at length became weary of hard work and her cross grandmother went to reside with her uncle.

                                      H,                        Elsie-

                                              Warwick  Oct 3 1854

My dear Uncle Charles,

                            It has been a long time since I saw you last, I believe it is about seven years last spring that you were to Grandmother Reed's eating dinner and mother and I went down to spend the afternoon. I am now a large girl I suppose; I am nine years old. I have two brothers, and one sister. My Oldest brother's name is James Danford, my youngest brother's name is Moses Reed and my sister's name is Mary Abby. She calls herself