Our Correspondence.
Notes, letters and billets, puzzles and charades, cuts and compliments, praise and blame, are here before us, for which we return our hearty thanks to our little correspondents. We insert the following, which is all we can do this month. We are now winding off all our stories for the close of the year, and are preparing lots of pleasant things for the first of January. So, gentle readers, all, pray hold us excused, if we have omitted particularly to acknowledge any of your kind favors.
Sheboygan Falls, W. T., 1843.Robert Merry, Esq.:My Dear old Friend,—Your “Museum” has been very amusing, as well as instructive, to me and my little brothers, during the last year. And, my dear father having made us a new-year’s present of one dollar, I think the best use we can make of it is to send it to you, for which we wish you to send us the Museum during the year 1843; and, by so doing, you will very much enhance the pleasure of your little friends in the wilds of Wisconsin.G. F. C.
Sheboygan Falls, W. T., 1843.
Robert Merry, Esq.:
My Dear old Friend,—Your “Museum” has been very amusing, as well as instructive, to me and my little brothers, during the last year. And, my dear father having made us a new-year’s present of one dollar, I think the best use we can make of it is to send it to you, for which we wish you to send us the Museum during the year 1843; and, by so doing, you will very much enhance the pleasure of your little friends in the wilds of Wisconsin.G. F. C.
A “CONSTANT READER” sends us the following charade:
When walking by the water’s side,Myfirstyou oft may see;And if a lamp your steps should guide,My next would in it be:My whole does form a lady’s name,Who long has been beloved of fame.
When walking by the water’s side,Myfirstyou oft may see;And if a lamp your steps should guide,My next would in it be:My whole does form a lady’s name,Who long has been beloved of fame.
When walking by the water’s side,
Myfirstyou oft may see;
And if a lamp your steps should guide,
My next would in it be:
My whole does form a lady’s name,
Who long has been beloved of fame.
Elizabeth B.guesses that the answer to the geographical puzzle, in the September number, is, “Merchants’ Exchange,” and she guesses right.
Anothercorrespondent, who calls himself a “reader of Merry’s Museum,” has furnished us with a similar answer.
I ampleased with the letter from our limping friend, which follows. I have a sort of sympathy and fellow-feeling for every one who has been upon crutches and carries a cane—if it be for use, and not for display. Our little correspondent has hard fortune, but let him keep a good heart. Mind Bob Merry, and go ahead.
Machias, Sept. 7, 1843.Good morning, Mr. Merry!Dear Sir,—I am a blue-eyed friend and subscriber. I have taken your Museum ever since it was published. I like it very much indeed. The story of the Siberian Sable-Hunter, and Merry’s Adventures, please me best. Would you be so good as to put in some more stories about “Bill Keeler?” Bill was an honest chap. I am lame, but was not shot through the knee, like you. I used to walk on crutches for four years, but now I only use a cane.I was twelve years old the twenty-second day of February, Washington’s birth-day. I like Washington very much; he did so much good for his country.Will you not publish some original stories about China and the emperor Napoleon? By so doing, you will gratify your little friend. Please write an answer to my letter.Samuel H——
Machias, Sept. 7, 1843.
Good morning, Mr. Merry!
Dear Sir,—I am a blue-eyed friend and subscriber. I have taken your Museum ever since it was published. I like it very much indeed. The story of the Siberian Sable-Hunter, and Merry’s Adventures, please me best. Would you be so good as to put in some more stories about “Bill Keeler?” Bill was an honest chap. I am lame, but was not shot through the knee, like you. I used to walk on crutches for four years, but now I only use a cane.
I was twelve years old the twenty-second day of February, Washington’s birth-day. I like Washington very much; he did so much good for his country.
Will you not publish some original stories about China and the emperor Napoleon? By so doing, you will gratify your little friend. Please write an answer to my letter.Samuel H——
Wehave received a very pretty letter from Sophia M. T. She scolds us a little, and she has reason. But she shall hear from “the old man in the corner,” and perhaps he will be able to make amends for his delay.