ER, Jun.

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BETHANY, MISSOURI.

I see so many little folks writing to you, I thought I would write
too. I am eight years old, and I live where the sun goes down. I
never saw a railroad in my life, and never went to school. Mamma
teaches us at home. I have a cream-colored pony, and sister Grace
has a pet lamb. She had to get a baby's nursing-bottle to raise
the lamb with, and it is just too funny to see her feed it. It
sucks away at the bottle as hard as ever it can, and wags its
little tail ever so fast. We have learned nearly all we know from
HARPER'S MAGAZINE and the BAZAR and WEEKLY, for papa and mamma
have taken them all our lives. We could not do without the
pictures. I wish you could see our stacks and heaps of the MONTHLY
and the papers. When we want a good old time, we get them all out,
and they are as good as new. We think there never was such a
splendid paper as YOUNG PEOPLE. My sister Grace wanted to write to
you too, but mamma said one nuisance was enough at a time.

NELLIE BLACKBURN.

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CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA.

I borrowed HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE of one of my neighbors, and I
like it so much I intend to take it as soon as I can earn money
enough to pay for it. I am a cripple boy. I have no feet. One was
cut off below and one above the knee, and when I move round I have
to go on my hands. I want a pair of Newfoundland dogs for a team,
but I can not find where I can get them. I knit a pair of mittens,
and sold them to help pay for YOUNG PEOPLE, and now I am mending
grain bags to earn the rest of the money. I am fond of reading,
and feel lonesome without books and papers.

ELMER R. BLANCHARD.

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SALT LAKE, UTAH TERRITORY.

Father wants me to tell you that he made me a telescope of
sheet-iron as you described in the first number of YOUNG PEOPLE,
and although my object-glass is only one and one-quarter inches in
diameter, we can plainly see Jupiter's four moons. Jupiter itself
appears as big as a nickel five-cent piece. We can also see the
rings of Saturn. But when we look at anything on the earth, it is
turned upside down. This glass gives us a great deal of pleasure.

OLAF THOMASSEN.

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