[You got that _wroten_ ?] "There wasn't any _dead_ little kittens.

She gave me a cookie, and I eated it, and I told her to give me another to bring home, 'cause I liked her cookies; they was curly cookies.

[Got it wroted, mamma ?] "Now 'bout I pumped full a pail full o' water.
"[She _knows_ we've got a house ?] "Now say good by, and I kiss her a pretty little kiss.

O, no; I want her to come and see me,--her and Prudy,--_two_ of 'em! I's here yet.

['Haps she knows it!] "That's all--I feel sleepy.
(Signed) "From "DOTTY DIMPWILL TO FLYWER." This letter "went into a mist," and so did the next performance, which you will read in the following chapter..