I am a boy of twelve years. I like Young People very much. We live in Croatia, on the Styrian frontier, near to Bath Rohitsch. Our castle was built about the time America was discovered. It is said that a headless huntsman wanders through the corridors at night, but I have never met him.
We see from the windows many high alps of Styria and Carinthia. We go very often to the Szotlee to swim.
I have two canary-birds and two good old dogs.
My sister, who is fourteen years old, would like very much some pressed California flowers. She would send some from here in return.
James Kavanagh,
Post Rohitsch, Styria, Austria.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Reading in Young People about the fight between the Constitution and the Guerrière, I thought I would tell you about a relic I have. It is a cross made of the wood of the Constitution, which was presented to my father by Miss Bainbridge, a daughter of Commodore Bainbridge, the commander of the Constitution after Captain Hull retired.
I have been a constant reader of the delightful little paper ever since Christmas. I am ten years old, but I have never made but two trips away from my Southern home.