Best for the end.

Send us your pictures and poems--we'll publish as many as we can. Please send only YOUR OWN WORK. Pictures should be on unlined paper, and poems should be twelve lines or less. Include your name, age, and address, and mail to: "Best for the End," U*S* Kids, P.O. Box 567, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

Love at First Sight

Lidia Fulk, 11

Washington

Priscilla Pita, 9

New York

Wedding Cake

Bridget Hagerty, 7

Rhode Island

My Hearts

Nellie Burch

New York

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