Boston, Massachusetts.
I would like to know if the story about Captain Cook's goat is true.
Willie W.
We only know of one goat connected with Captain Cook. This travelled beast twice circumnavigated the globe—first in the ship Dolphin, with the early discoverer Captain Wallis: and secondly in the ship Endeavor, with Captain Cook. After the goat arrived in England for the second time, the Lords of the Admiralty granted it the privilege of a residence in Greenwich Hospital, and a silver collar was put around its neck, inscribed with a Latin couplet composed by Dr. Johnson. But the goat, like many other old sailors, did not apparently thrive on dry land, for it died in April, 1772, as it was about to be given to the old seamen at Greenwich for a pet, and less than a year after its return from the long voyage with Captain Cook.
C. B. M.—Postage stamps, if they are clean and in good order, will be received in payment for the covers of Harper's Young People.
"Bill."—We refer you to the advertisement of toy steam-engine in Harper's Young People No. 53.
Ernst H.—Your insect from Colorado answers the description of the caddis-worm. This worm, which is a soft, white creature, lives under water in a movable house which it makes for itself out of bits of stone, pieces of shell, and grains of sand. It feeds on minute particles of water refuse. When its life as a worm is ended it forms a chrysalis, from which issues a fly with hairy wings called the caddis-fly, of which there are many species. The caddis-worm is much used as bait by fishermen.