My home is on the banks of the Alleghany River, and on the farm on which my great-grandfather lived when these woods were the home of the savage Indians. When my grandfather was a little boy, his mother used to take him, with her other children, into Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, for safety. I have two little sisters, one five years and the other four months old. I had a nice old dog named Shep. He died. Then we had none until my aunt came from Tennessee, and brought a cunning little dog with her. She thinks a great deal of him, for one night, when she was all alone, her house took fire and burned down, and Prince, who was sleeping in her room, barked and barked, and jumped on her bed, to awaken her. But for him she might have been burned with the house. He is in my care, and is faithful and obedient.
I would like very much to see Mrs. Richardson's school, and old Pete.
Hugh L. S., Jun.
Prince was a very good watch-dog, and you ought to be proud of him. Fidelity and obedience are splendid qualities in a dog's character, and in a boy's too.
The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:
Red scallop shells, Indian money from Buzzard's Bay, and stones from the Bay of Fundy, for a stone from any Territory.
Lawrence Brooks,
7 Arlington St., Boston, Mass.
Postmarks, for anything suitable for a museum; or thirty-five postmarks, for an Indian arrow-head.
Arthur R. Willyoung,
147 Park St., Detroit, Mich.