Reginald P.
You see, dear, the artist thought just as you did, that Master Toby Tyler was quite jolly enough in his old hat.
Toronto, Canada.
I am a boy ten years old. I like "Mr. Stubbs's Brother" very much. I go to the Upper Canada College; I like it very much. We have five horses; their names are Jumbo, Billy, his brother Jean, Ted, and Duke, the largest and gentlest. When the driver goes into the stall, Duke puts his head on his shoulder. If you give Jumbo an orange, he will eat it. I like cricket and foot-ball best of all the games. I am drilling at school; we have a sergeant to drill us. I like boating and swimming; I can swim pretty well now. I think fencing is splendid fun. We have a Zoo here. There is a man who puts his head into the alligator's mouth. Then he goes into the bear's and panther's cages. There is the largest Russian bear in the world here. We had no sleighing here last winter, but I went up to Owen Sound, and had some there in my Christmas holidays.
Arthur V.
San Francisco, California.
I am a little girl ten years old. On Friday last mamma, papa, and I left, with some friends, on a trip to Mount Diablo. We started at eleven o'clock in the morning. Part of the way we went in a stage-coach, and had four horses. We went to a hotel that had been shut up for a long time. There were beds, but no bedding. It was after ten o'clock at night before we went to get dinner, and after one before we got to bed. We took blankets, as we thought it would be cold in the mountains, but, instead it was 110° in the shade. We went to the very top of one of the highest mountains of California.
Nannie D.