THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER

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THE 1000^TH NUMBER
OF
THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER

[Transcriber’s Note: The 1000^th number is available from ProjectGutenberg as etext number 60565, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60565.]

The Editor feels bound to record, forthe pleasure of the general reader ofthis magazine, some of the charmingexpressions of goodwill called forth bythe publication of the 1000th Number.He has been greatly cheered by them,and he knows so well that the readerswill share the pleasure with him that hewill unclose to them some of his recentcorrespondence, the actual letters themselvesbeing sent to the printer as MS.

First, from readers old and young, andfrom every nation under the sun, he hasreceived hearty congratulations.

One kind girl near London writes: