The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-18

cause you thought you were getting roo
Old 70 be Haps | don't Seiieye tnat
though ! guess it's because the girls
ring of for this time. for fear of the waste
basket see It's mouth stretched from
Clarence simmons.
Monlton, Texas.--Dear Haphammer: WIN
y yeerri Khgly permit another South Texas
recruit TO join the large band of nearly
12,QV happy boys and girls and chat
! awhlles have always been an interested
reader Of the Haps letters ever since /
Xmas, but have never raked up enough
however has created such an Interest ID
naturally forced me to Kindly ask for adj
mlttance. VIII Il be granted? NV oDlnion
as to whether the writer's should sign
tnelr real names or not shall remain I'm.
expressed for to-day, hut shall lie pleased
| 70 vote the next time Well as This is get
ing rather long. had better close. Visa
! ing the Haps continued srccess lnd hoping
Respectfully yours A. j, Elster.
Pierce Texas-near Haphammer. Mny
| ! JOIN your elub2 read the letters every
| week but always read the club talk first
g p,. az, ! have only seen two letters from
Emmett siood. of Content. Hpps they are
ny cousins. ! agree. With Mrs, Foster
about the dreamers. ! enjoy the dreams,
ana cannot see how the others keep from
! enjoying them. Haps wasn't that letter
| from Little Rustic about the log rolling
| think the Haps should be allowed To use
| fancy names II they wish 10. 1t Is So
name, aud say let them use them
o MaJInt that %o letter from William yaught
had hard time OF It.; II Mr. Phil Is as
handsome as Won describe him no wonder
me Haps admire, him so much. | will close
Houston, Texas.-Dear Haphanimer:
really ieel ashamed 70 write. now, but can
not resist the temptation of doing So
joined in 1896 and have written twice
since, but ] suppose the waste basketawas
s saM tSe@ by the nrt time Wrote 50 never
test really have not much TO say. II
some would rather write under fancy
name Ita why let them. ! really see ne harm
rabbit did have i've cats, but gave
I'VE ba away yeo Reading enjoy yeTy much;
in Bloom, Jack and Jill I" Birds ,rlst.
mas Carol and Five Little Peppers and
how They Grew" AS for novel reading L
don't fancy It one bit. How about the
baitlefeldf I think we could help some By
getting up petitions. Well as my letter
A true Hap Winnie Bender.
Hondo, Texas-Dear Haphammer: Listen,
here comes another stranger knocking Mt
the door VIII YOU please let me in TO
chat a while with you allg ] am II years
old and live in the country We have n
cotton all this year like to work in the
field when II isn't too hot. How many of
the Hnps like to hunt? do for one. |
am going up in the mountains pretty soon
and then ] will hunt and fish. How ]
wish some OF the Haps would be here 70
go with me. have two pets. a dog aud
cat Ny cS 5eS name name M sg haze sSs
I years old. She went to school with
me last year and learns very fast. A
wild cat came last night and got after the
and ran through the fence and knocked
dollars worth of skin of OF my knee,
but 1t did not hurt the fence. Will
close, hoping to be enrolled as a Hap. !
a'D "Ou'uO' Clarence w. Allen.
sayers. Texas.-Dear Haphammer Wei.
as l happened to be so lucky last time |
wrote VII try again AIM viii vote ,,,I Tor
again, William Yaught; your dream was
liam, / do not think you win make sol.
Indeed sorr TO hear of Mrs, Fosters H..
ness ard hope she will 500 he well and
strong aeain,, How many many Of you read me
Tor one. II is funny little piece and
You Haps read Mrs. Fosters letters and
poems and speeches.. You win ind good
deal in them, would Ike e get he
!; words TO 'In the shadow Of the Pines
and Home Sweet Hone sorgs w sndn e *
., Dear Brother Green 1.-THE Little Boat"
love to ali the dear Haps and Mrs. Foster.
i'N'a'" &C ~ Mabel Carter.
Mount Pleasant Iowa-Dear Haphqm-
mer: Last year lived about thirty mile.
from any city, and never got to go e
! town much. SO one morning mamma toio
% %So thR yed nigh e sG 70 We lived near
little village, and from there ! took the
! cars for Chicago. We left the little village
: at a. M, arriving there at Z o'cioGk
and found my uncle waiting for me. W.
took carriage, and were soon at grand
+. mas pleasant home, but found grandm,
} with both arms broken. she was, yer!
glad to see me, and pitched in and helped
s ner get dinner. After dinner and dishe;
t wased laid down on the cot ana wen
. ! 10 sleep / hadn't slept long until grandma
7 woke me up and told me that ! might piel
/. n dish Of strawberries for supper ant
. when / had got my little basket full anl
' was starting 10 the house there lay :
!. bIg snake ali my feet, l thought wonlt
turn and run, but 10 and behold! there lal
its mate on the other side, and what coull
= do but SCfedmf JubA bhNN NAN - ,''H
4 sfter another and by the time grnndn'
d heard me and came dozen nelgh6ors wer
l there, too and Just then ! awoke 70 nn,
a myself in my own little room az nome
v and mamma calling me to breakfast Fare
S WELL Haps. Euha b'itioh'
7 Beevllie, Texas Dear Haphammer; How
/ 7id Won An spend the Fourthf | VIII tr!
Il t n tSi YOU how / spent IT, We STARTED
% bright anu early Thursday morning an
). went seven miles to the Aransas river; ~
S,p Iady and her daughter. Il was q oy..
y ~ day and we Travelled slowly S s ssw lot o.
H. I% ~ "btasides hundreds Of other little r
Il ! do1,'t Ike chaparral birds because ths.
% climb limb the trees and rob other little birds lh
lie Dests The place where we stopped wa
ir So, ri.iinrrsdiie mace ! ever saw.
lie , thS Hi nm I'D country farm house on n
= banks Of the river, shaded ~ large OAK i,.
lg ss11rsa6Ipg our dinner under the live oak
Al TX bosp7table people at thls home treate