I am an Ohio boy fourteen years of age. On my last birthday my
parents gave me a dollar and a half, and told me to make good use
of it. I did so by subscribing for HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. I find
now that I could not have made a better use of it. My father is a
physician, and I intend to be one also. I go to school every day,
and in a few years expect to go to college.
I will now tell you of some of my pets. First of all are my dogs,
of which I have two. The one I call Dash is a water-spaniel, brown
in color, with a white breast, which I call his shirt bosom. The
other one is a Gordon setter, whose name is Duke. He is two and a
half feet high, and from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail
he measures four and a half feet. He is my pony in the winter
season, and enjoys hauling me as well as I enjoy being hauled. I
often take both dogs to the creek. They are very good swimmers. I
have one brother ten years old, and a sister eight. My brother says
he will be a druggist. I the doctor, and he the druggist; won't
that be nice? My father has a drug store, and I act as clerk for
him during vacation. When we ask sister what she will be, she says
she will be a mamma. I have a great many other pets besides my
dogs, but will not write about them this time.