Lincoln S.
I think it is great fun to ride on top of a load of hay. It makes one feel quite proud to be so high up in the world.
Peekskill, New York.
I have taken Harper's Young People a year and a half, and like it very much. My home is on the State Camp Ground, but we moved away when the soldiers came there. We moved the 16th of June; I was sorry to come away. I do not like it where we live now; it is a little cooped-up place on the edge of Peekskill. I am the only girl of the family, but I have four brothers. The week of the Fourth of July we all went over on a high hill overlooking the camp ground to see the fire-works. We can not hear the music very plainly, because of the hill in front of us. I have been over to the camp six times since we moved. We have a pet cat that can catch fish. One day last summer two of my brothers were out rowing in a boat, and the cat was with them, and when they were quite a way out in the creek she jumped overboard and swam ashore.
A. G. C.
Pussy was an exception to cats in general. They seldom like to wet their dainty feet. It must be very pleasant to have four brothers to take care of and pet their only sister. I hope yours are very fond of you, and that you are kind and good to them.
Brighton, Sussex, England.
I am an English boy nine years old. I have a sister named Eva; she is four years old; and I have also a jolly little brother named Harold, and he is two. I have only one pet, a canary, whose name is Dick; he sings very loud. A friend of my father's, who used to go to school with him, lives in Philadelphia, and he sends me the numbers of Young People every month. I do enjoy reading them, and I think Jimmy Brown's stories are capital. When I went to the Zoological Gardens in London I saw Jumbo have his bath; his keeper had to give him a good scolding before he would go in. It was so deep he dived down quite out of sight. I hope you will print this. I have just got over an illness, and can not go out much. Good-by.