Thomasville, Georgia.
Last Christmas my papa presented me with Harper's Young People, and it has afforded me a great deal of pleasure, and I intend to continue reading it always. I am eight years old, and since last fall have gone to school. I am now in the Fifth Reader, and work sums in fractions; but somehow I still love to play, and ride my velocipede, while my sister Sadie, who is five years, and Edna, nineteen months, amuse themselves with dolls. We live in a town quite famous as a winter resort, and many come here to escape the cold North and West, and to enjoy our pine regions.
Herbert J. H.
Belden, Texas.
I am a little boy nine years old. I have been taking Young People since last November. I have several pets. I have a dog, a pony, a pig, and three chickens; but the sweetest pet of all is my little baby brother; his name is Charley, but we call him Carly. I want to tell about my pig, he is so smart he thinks he is a dog. Everywhere the dogs go, the pig goes too. He helped me drive the horses to water yesterday. I live on a farm. I do not go to school; mamma teaches me at home.
Walter J. M.
A very remarkable pig. It must be funny to see him trotting off after the dogs and their little master.