Marshalltown, Iowa.
Our school takes Harper's Young People, and on Friday afternoons our teacher reads us a story from it, and after hearing it we have to write it out in our own words. The last we wrote about was "Cleopatra's Needle."
Our County Superintendent advised all the other schools to take Young People, so that the scholars might have something nice to read.
Our teacher has read "Toby Tyler" to us, and we are very much interested in it.
I wish every boy and girl in the United States could have Young People to read.
Harry B. M.
Denmark, Kansas.
We came here from Pennsylvania almost two years ago.
There are lots of prairie-wolves out here. They come right up to the house at night after chickens. We have two dogs. One is a shepherd dog, and we have named him Wolf, because he looks so much like one. The other is a little rat terrier named Candle. One night the wolves came round the house, and the dogs ran out after them. Pretty soon we heard a dreadful yelping. We went out, and found one of the wolves had Candle in its mouth, and our Wolf was fighting like everything. When they saw us, the wolves dropped Candle and ran away.
My brothers and I and the dogs caught fifteen rabbits this winter. There are just lots of them out here.
There is very little timber here, only along the creeks. It is mostly cottonwood and elm. We live between two creeks, ten miles from town, and thirty miles from the railroad. Our school-house is two miles away. It has been very cold here this winter, with deep snow. We have to go three miles for the mail, and I generally go on horseback. We can hardly wait for Tuesday, for that is the day we get Young People.
Robert E. L. N.
Crow Agency, Montana.