I love Young People. This year mamma paid for it, but next year I am going to pay for it myself. I earned the money helping papa. We all enjoy it. I read it aloud to mamma while she is sewing. I like best the history of "Old Times in the Colonies," because it tells so much about my country.
I have no pets now, for my dog Beauty and my bird Jenny both died.
I am nearly ten years old, and this is the second letter I ever wrote to go by mail.
Howard K. M.
The following three letters are from three little boys, companion scholars, in a school at Evansville, Indiana:
I will be nine years old on Thanksgiving-day, and hope to celebrate my birthday by eating plenty of turkey and oysters.
We all brought a nickel to school, and had our teacher get Harper's Young People. I like it very much. We like to read the letters the little boys and girls write, and hope you will print ours.
John A. J.
I am eight years old. I attend the public school, and am in the Fifth Reader, A grade.
Our teacher reads Harper's Young People to us every Friday. We all fight for the paper when it comes, for the pictures are so pretty!
Willie H.
I love to read the letters in Young People very much, and we all love the stories.
I have a fine dog named Scout. He chewed up my hat. It was the only one I had, so mother gave me money to buy a cap. I also have a pet rooster, but he is sick. I gave him butter, as some one said it would cure him.
Charlie D. M.