We have taken Harper's Young People ever since it was published, and we think it grows better all the time. I enjoyed reading the letter from one of the party who visited Harper's Building, and I hope some time to see it all myself. I guess, if I am a girl, I should not be afraid, and "run away" from any of the machinery; anyhow, not from the folding-machines, for some of them are made right here in our own shop.
After we have read our Young People all through, we send the numbers to the Children's Hospital, so that the poor little ones there may have the pleasure of reading such a nice little paper.
Isabel C.
Bozeman, Montana Territory.
I take Young People, and I like it very much. I was so sorry when the story of "Paul Grayson" was finished.
I am boarding in town and going to school this winter, but my home is about five miles away, in the country. I go out there every Friday night.
Yesterday I went out hunting. I have a double-barrelled shot-gun, which pa gave me for helping pick up potatoes. I have a horse and a saddle and bridle of my own, and in the summer I have to ride lots. Sometimes I ride thirty miles at a time.
I get up the cows, and take them out every day. In the summer we have school within half a mile of our house.
Bertie R.
Newport, Kentucky.
This is the first letter I ever wrote to the Post-office Box. Now I thought I would tell about the freezing of the Ohio River. Just below here it is frozen solid, and crowds of people skate on it every day. It is not frozen in front of Newport, because a steam ferry runs between here and Cincinnati, and the boats keep the ice broken. They do not allow it to get thick enough to hold people, because if it was, everybody would walk over without having to pay the ferry.
The Licking River, a very small tributary of the Ohio, is frozen over too, and I went skating on it yesterday.
Henry R.