St. Johns, Michigan.
I thought, as I knew a good noisy game, I would write to Young People, and tell the readers how to play it. It is called "Frog in the Middle."
A player, selected by lot, sits on the carpet, while the others form a circle round him, taking him unawares when his back is turned, pulling him, pinching him, buffeting him, and pulling his hair. When he succeeds in catching one of them, the captive must change places with him. As the players dance and caper around the frog they cry, "Frog in the middle—catch him who can!"
Robert G. S.
Is not Frog in the Middle rather too boisterous a game for the parlor? Is there no danger that the hair-pulling and buffeting may become too earnest for fun, and that there may be crying as well as laughing among the players? Please send us descriptions of quiet games as well as of noisy ones. We know that boys love noise; but somehow we always think that noise should be kept out-doors, where there is room for it.
Nevada, Missouri.
I am a little boy five years old, and my mamma buys Young People for me every week. I like it very much, and the funny pictures in it. I can read nicely in my Second Reader, and can write small words, though not well enough to write a letter, but will before I am six years old. (Mamma is writing this for me.) I am staying with my little cousin Berkeley; he has a canary-bird (Hattie), and I have one (Dick). I call Berkeley my little brother, because he is all his mamma has, and so am I all my mamma has. I have two more little boy cousins in Kansas—Fred and Luther—and one more in Philadelphia; his name is Joe. We have no girl cousins at all; we think it would be a change to have one. We get tired of all boys, but we are all going to try to be good men. Mamma reads me all the things in Young People that I can understand. I like Jimmy Brown best. Please print this for me, because I can read it. I am going to start to school next Monday. I have been to New York, and often been through Franklin Square.
Eugene W.