I have never seen a letter in the Post-office Box from this place,
so I thought I would write. I have taken HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
since November, and like to read it very much. We are spending our
vacation here, but our home is in Portland, Oregon. We are only
about fifteen miles from Mount Hood, and we can also see Mount
Adams very plainly from here. Most of our trees are pine, but there
are a great many oaks too. We have lots of fun swinging on their
long branches. My brother and another man killed a rattlesnake with
six rattles the other day. We eat out-of-doors, in a dining-room
made of small pine-trees and boughs. We have a horse whose name is
Silly. There are five girls in our family and two boys. My baby
brother is three months old, and we think he is the dearest baby in
the world. He laughs right out loud sometimes. I have been trying
to learn something else besides what I find in my books at school,
but all that I have yet learned to do well is to darn stockings and
make biscuits.