I enjoy reading Harper's Young People very much, although I am fifteen years old. I am employed in a large hardware house in this city. I think we boys ought to appreciate the privilege given us in this paper of exchanging our postage stamps and postmarks. And it is a satisfaction to feel that the same paper we receive and read is also received and read by so many other boys and girls in so many different parts of our own and other countries.
J. C. L.
Providence, Rhode Island.
I want to tell you how near I came to being run over by an engine. It was one awful cold Saturday morning, and the sidewalk on the avenue where we slide was all covered with ice. I started at the top of the hill, and went down very swiftly. At the foot of the hill there is a railroad, and on one side of it there was a big snow-bank. When I got to that snow-bank, I could not stop my sled, and I went clear over it right in front of an engine that was standing on the track. I got up and took myself and the sled out of the way in a hurry, and just then the engine started.
Horace G. B.
Columbus, Mississippi.
I am nine years old, and I go to school. We have a class of boys, and we read in Young People instead of a reader. We read all the stories, and like them very much. We expect to have a railroad here in a few years, and street cars too.
Charles W. W.