You were interested in the article in No. 102 on the boyhood of President Garfield, were you not? If more of our children had written about him, we would have had more letters to print; but we think everybody's heart was almost too full to write during the weary weeks before his death.
Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
As I have been taking your paper for a long time and have never written you a letter, I thought I would. I go to a military school, and attend drill every evening. Across from our school are several Indian mounds, and the boys opened one of them lately, and found several Indian arrows and other implements of war. I am sixteen years old, and a printer. Kindest regards for Harper's Young People, and hoping it may prosper, I remain,
C. C.
St. Lucie, Florida.
Some time ago one of your correspondents wrote a very interesting letter in answer to your inquiry about Florida sea-beans.
I send you some specimens gathered on the Atlantic beach, not very far from where the ill-fated steamer City of Vera Cruz went down last August. But these do not grow on trees; they are the product of a vine, something like that of the common horse-bean. There are vines from this variety now growing on Indian River, though they are not indigenous. I have heard they grow in abundance on the Spanish main.
Mr. Bennett, of Syracuse, New York, presented me with some implements and a work on taxidermy, and I have learned to skin birds. Are ivory-billed woodpeckers numerous in the North?
I value my paper, and I know Mr. James Otis must Be a good man by what he writes.
Johnnie C. J.
You and the others who followed the fortunes of the little runaway with so much interest will be pleased to hear that Mr. James Otis has gone to Florida in a little steam-yacht named Toby Tyler after his hero. Doubtless some account of his trip will be published in Young People.