Scottie O.
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
I am a very little girl. Mamma reads the stories and little letters in Young People to me. I felt so sorry for Toby Tyler when Mr. Stubbs threw away his money that I made a little bag, and put some of my pennies in it, and I have asked mamma so many times to send it to him that now she is going to do it, and when I think Toby has this nice little red money bag, and some more pennies, I shall feel a great deal better. I am blowing soap-bubbles in the sunshine by the window, while mamma writes this for me. I know my letters, and can print some, and I hope soon to do my own writing.
Mamma helped me print a letter to Santa Claus, and I told him just what I wanted him to bring me. I put my letter in the chimney, and next morning it was gone, and dear old Santa Claus brought me just what I asked him for. I screamed up the chimney, and tried to make him hear me, but he never answered a word.
Chrisie B. B.
A little red bag, evidently the work of a "very little girl," containing three very bright pennies, accompanied this letter. It has been sent to Mr. Otis, who has written the story of the little boy's wanderings, and we are sure that when it reaches him, Toby Tyler will be pleased and comforted by this pretty expression of sympathy. The little readers of Young People are very lavish with their offers of kindness to this unfortunate boy. A great many homes are proffered to him, and no end of pennies and other comforts.
Indeed, no story that we remember has excited so much interest in its readers as that of "Toby Tyler." We could fill the Post-office Box with the letters received from our young correspondents, expressing their sympathy and delight. Many letters from parents also show that grown-up people are interested in the story, not only for the good lesson which it teaches, but for the graphic and entertaining manner in which the boy's adventures are told.
Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
Dear Young People,—Would you please tell me where Toby Tyler is? I would like to send him my fifty cents to help him home. I am so sorry Mr. Stubbs threw his money away, and I think Toby was a good boy not to punish him for it.