Arthur S. R.
Yosemite Valley, California.
I live in Philadelphia, but it is so hot there in the summer that we decided to spend a few weeks in this beautiful Californian valley, camping out.
We travelled from Merced to this place in our own wagons, pitching our tents every night. I like camp life very much, sleeping in tents and eating in the open air. Sometimes we build a camp fire in the evening, and all sit around it, telling stories and singing. It is very warm in the daytime here, and cold at night; and there is such a strong wind almost all the time that if you go too near the water-falls the spray is blown over you like rain. We make excursions every day to mountains and water-falls near by.
On the way here we saw a tree so large that it took fourteen of us to get our arms round it.
If any of the readers of Young People ever get a chance to go camping, I advise them to do it, for I think it is a great deal of fun.
I like to read Young People very much, and I am so glad I take it. I am twelve years old.
Alice W. S.