Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 Part 5

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

I am almost ten years old, and I weigh fifty-seven pounds. My greatest pleasure is in reading HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. My papa subscribed for it, beginning with the first number. I read the nice stories over and over again. I like my paper better than any present I ever received, and look forward with great joy to every Wednesday, when it comes.

How I wish I could tell all the boys and girls in this city what a good paper it is! I would like to get one thousand new subscribers. It is such nice print, and the stories are so plainly told that any little boy can understand them. Good-by.

WILLIE F. L.

NEW YORK CITY.

I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is the nicest paper I ever read.

I have a very cunning little poodle dog for a pet. He will stand up in a corner, and hold a cane in his paws, and a pipe in his mouth.

FRANK B. W.

WORCESTER, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

My friend Ethel has a parrot that her father brought from South America. He is a very funny bird. One day Ethel went into the room where he was, and he said, "Ethel, Ethel." She did not answer, and after waiting a moment the parrot said, "What?" as if to remind her to answer him. He talks mostly in Spanish, but has learned a good many English words since he came to this country. He laughs so loud sometimes that a person can not talk in the room with him.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much indeed. My brother was interested in "Old Times in the Colonies," and hopes there will be some more Indian stories.

OLIVE R.

PINEVILLE, MISSOURI.

I send you my brother's way of making beautiful soap-bubbles: Take a basin of either warm or cold water, and mix with it a quant.i.ty of country-made soap. Then take a piece of hollow pumpkin vine about a foot long, and place one end of it in the basin and one in the mouth, and blow.

WROTON K.

WHITEHALL, ILLINOIS.

I take HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is the best paper published.

I have some minnows which I feed on bits of bread and meat. They are so tame that when I go to feed them, they will come up and eat from my fingers.

NORMAN W. J.

MOBERLY, MISSOURI.

We have a big dog named Jack. He is the biggest dog in town. He weighs over one hundred pounds, and he is very intelligent.

Mamma found a queer worm the other day. Its eyes were green, and it was green all over. It had yellow bunches on its back with p.r.i.c.kles on them, and on its sides were blue spots. Papa took it down town, but n.o.body knew what it was. I wish some correspondent could tell me its name.

MAGGIE P. B.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I have three turtles. The smallest one I can cover with a twenty-five-cent piece. It sometimes stays under water over thirteen minutes.

I would like to tell Jessie B., whose letter was in No. 33, that she must put her turtle in water deep enough to half cover it; and when she feeds it, she must put one end of the worm in the water, and whenever the turtle snaps for it, she must lift it up, until, after a while, the turtle will take it from her hand.

I like the story of "The Moral Pirates" the best of all. I am ten years old.

W. G.

MOUNT PLEASANT, NEW YORK.

I am having a very nice time up here among the Catskills. I go fis.h.i.+ng very often, and always have very good luck. I am also hunting for birds' eggs, and have collected a large number.

We are entirely surrounded by the mountains, one of which I have already ascended, and was rewarded by a beautiful view of the surrounding country.

Through exchange with the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE I have received a great many eggs. I hope all the correspondents are enjoying their vacation as well as I am mine.

I. QUACKENBOSS.

BOSTON, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

Since I wrote to YOUNG PEOPLE I have received and exchanged so many specimens! I am delighted. Last week my papa helped me, and we sent twenty-three boxes of ocean curiosities to different parts of the United States.

I have all sorts of beautiful things. One of them is a live bat that is so tame that he will eat from my hand, and does not offer to fly away.

I get something new nearly every day from some of the subscribers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I think it is the nicest paper I ever saw.

"WEE TOT" BRAINARD.

WRIGHTS, CALIFORNIA.

I am eleven years old, and I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Sometimes we are above the clouds. When it is clear, we can see the bay, and the s.h.i.+ps coming in.

There are deep gulches here, full of trees and moss and fern.