Wakefield, Massachusetts.
An article in your paper of April 27, 1880, entitled "A Cheap Canoe," has given a decided stimulus to the boys of this town in the matter of canoe building. There are now six on our lake, built almost entirely by the boys who own them, on the model there given.
I send you a short article from our local paper, written by my son, a lad of fifteen, giving his experience on his first canoe trip down Ipswich River. He proposes a much longer one next summer vacation.
Many thanks are due to you for giving the boys something useful to do, which teaches them how to do their own work.
S. W. A.
St. Johns, Michigan.