I have returned from my summer vacation, which I spent in Virginia. My baby brother was very glad to see me. I have four pets--a red bird, goat, pigeons, and a little dog. I drive my little brother out in my goat-wagon. When papa left me in the country, on his way home, the cars ran off the track, and smashed the tender, and he was six hours detained in the hot sun. I was waiting every day to hear from home, to know whether he was hurt, but no one was injured. When my brother and I were coming home, a mule got on the track, and delayed the freight train, so that we were seven hours behind time, and I did not get home in time to see the President's funeral. W. H. T. How thankful you must be that your dear father escaped unhurt! * * * * * HILLHURST, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. I am a little girl seven years old. I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since Christmas, and like it ever so much. This is the first letter I have ever written. I have lived in New Tacoma ever since I was one year old, until about two months ago. I am now living in the country, fourteen miles from New Tacoma. I like it much better than I did in town, for there are so many pretty ferns, leaves, and mosses, and other things too. I read so many letters from little boys and girls who write to YOUNG PEOPLE, I thought I would write one. I hope you will print this. I want to surprise papa. He does not know I am writing this. I will show it to him when it is printed. ANNA S. H. Your writing was so large and plain, dear, that we enjoyed reading your first letter. * * * * * WEST WINSTED, CONNECTICUT. Have you room for another in Our Post-office Box? As I was picking grapes yesterday morning, I was surprised at finding a double one about one inch long. I must tell you of a kitten that I found last evening. I was sitting out-of-doors, and I heard a poor little kitten mew. It was nearly dead with hunger. I took it in and fed it, and now it is getting so that it feels itself quite at home. I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and am very eager for it to come. I only wish that it would come every day instead of every week. I _hope_ this will be published, as I have never seen one of my letters in print. HENRY J. * * * * * LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.