Charley Bangs is a nice boy, but it was not right of him to take his big dog Towser to school when he heard the teacher was going to give him a flogging— And then to say he was afraid to send the dog home because it was so vicious, and might turn on him, and bite him!
TO THE READERS OF HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
A CHRISTMAS GREETING.
The publishers of Harper's Young People congratulate their readers on the approach of the merry holiday season, and take pleasure in announcing the enlargement of this journal to sixteen pages, beginning with the Christmas number, which will be published December 23.
This change will enable the publishers to give their young readers every week an increased variety of stories, poems, sketches, and other attractive reading, from the best writers that can be secured. The publishers will also avail themselves of this occasion to present Harper's Young People to their subscribers in new and enlarged type, which will greatly add to the beauty and attractiveness of its appearance.
No pains or expense will be spared to make Harper's Young People the most entertaining, instructive, high-toned, and popular weekly paper for the youthful readers of America.