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Page 63
ADDY L. FARNUM.
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DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I have a question to ask you, and if you will
answer it you will greatly oblige me. This is the question: May
leaves be of any size to make a folio or quarto?--Yours truly, K.
A sheet of paper of any size, folded in two equal parts, makes two
leaves of folio size; folded evenly once more, four leaves of quarto
size. But book-publishers use these words arbitrarily. With them a
sheet about 19 by 24 inches is supposed to be the proper size, unless
otherwise specified. A folio leaf is, consequently, about 12 by 19
inches; a quarto leaf, about 9 by 12 inches: an octavo leaf, about 6 by
9 inches.
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Fordham, N. Y.
DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I have a Polish rooster, I wonder if you have
ever seen one? If not, I will describe it. It has a very large
top-knot, very much larger than a duck's, although it is not at all
like it.
WILLIE A. RICHARDSON.
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Here is a letter that was sent to Santa Claus, last Christmas:
MR. SANTA CLAUSES,
NEW YORK CITY.
I don't know your number, but I gest you will get it.
MY DEAR OLD SANTA CLAUSES: I know you are awful poor for Mama sed
so but I do want so Many things and when I Commence to Writting to
you I feel like crying. Cause you know my papa is dead and mama is
auful poor to but I do want a Dolly so bad not like they give of
the Christmas tree but a real Dolly that open and shut it eyes but
O I want so many other things but I wont ask for them for you will
Think I am auful selfage and want to Take evythink from others
little Girls but when you ben all around if you have one picture
Book left pleas send it to me. Dear Santa Clauses plese don't
forget me because I live in Perth Amboy.
From
GRACE L.T.
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New York City.
DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I am reading a history of the late Civil War,
and often come across names of different parts of an army. I would
like to ask you two questions:
1. How many men usually are there in a corps, division, brigade,
and company?
2. How many guns are there in a field-battery?
If you will answer these, you will greatly oblige your friend and
reader,
GRANT SQUIRES.
In the United States service, the "company," in time of war, contains
98 non-commissioned officers and privates, and 3 officers; total, 101.
The regiment consists of ten companies. A brigade usually consists of
four regiments, and, if the ranks are full, should contain about 4,000
men. It sometimes happens that five or six regiments may be comprised
in one brigade. A division contains usually three, sometimes four,
brigades, and with full ranks would number from 12,000 to 15,000 men. A
corps contains three divisions, and should number, say, 45,000 men. In
actual conflict, these figures will, of course, widely vary; regiments
being reduced by losses to, perhaps, an average of 300 men each, and
the brigades, divisions, etc., to numbers correspondingly smaller. A
field-battery has either four or six guns, in the United States service
usually the latter number, and from 150 to 250 men. The English and
French Armies are not very dissimilar from our own in the matter of
organization; but in the German army the company contains 250 men, and
the regiment 3,000, and they have but two regiments in a brigade.
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