I live in Central Queensland, and have never seen a letter in
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE from this colony. Our home is in the bush;
the trees about here are gum, box, and ironbark. They give hardly
any shade, as the leaves hang straight down. There is a lagoon in
front of our house. My brother and I want to make a canoe, but we
can not procure back numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE here? If any young
reader would send us a copy of No. 26, Vol. I., we would in return
send some native seeds or colonial stamps.
It is very hot here, and we hardly ever see frost. Our orange-trees
are now loaded with blossoms. We have several hundred pine-apples.
I have a little garden of my own, and raise pumpkins, cabbages,
rock-melons, beans, and lettuces. My brother is ten, and I am eight
and a half years old. We recite lessons to mamma.
We often go riding, and we call our ponies Pip and King Pippin. We
have been building a suspension-bridge over a little dam, of
saplings and fencing wire. It gave us hard work for several weeks,
and papa says it developed our muscles finely.