ee Bart Hodge's daughter in the stories. I also read the
_Top-Notch Magazine,_ and I like it next to Tip Top. I like the
adventure stories the best, but the athletic stories are good, also. I
have a little doggerel here that I would like to see in print:

Now, boys, fill up your glasses,
In calm weather as well as in blizzard,
For the hero of men of all classes,
For you, Frank Merriwell, the wizard.

Once more for Dick, Frank's brother,
The boy who will always be trailed,
Because on all things he does not falter,
The fellow who never failed.

And now for Frank Merriwell, junior,
Who is one of the Merriwell flock,
Who always gets there a little sooner---
A chip of the old sturdy block.

I see you have some Tip Top post cards, and I would be immensely pleased
to receive a set of them. Waiting eagerly for the return of both Frank
and Dick, I will close, hoping that you will not consider this letter
too long to print, and will think it good enough to escape the
wastebasket. CLARENCE WELCH,
Olean, N. Y. 209 West Henly Street.

The post cards have been mailed to you. Thank you for your frank letter.

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A New Jersey Admirer.

I like Tip Top because it has such interesting stories.

It has helped me to be very fond of good reading. I get the Tip Top, and
often give it to others to read.

Please send me the set of six colored post cards with lifelike pictures
of the Merriwells.
Bartley, N. J. WALTER MORGAN.

We have mailed you the cards.

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Thinks We Are Improving.

I have been an ardent reader of Tip Top for a number of years, and
consider it the best weekly of its kind, and think it is improving.

There is something so fascinating about its stories, especially those
about Dick and Frank Merriwell, senior.

Glad to read in one of the last issues that we are to hear more of them,
also pleased to see the Applause Column on the pages again.

I would be pleased to receive a set of Tip Top post cards.

Hoping you will pardon the extent of this letter.

Hanover, Ontario, Canada. SIDNEY DANKERT.

Glad you think we are improving. We have mailed you the post cards.

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Cigarettes Are Certainly Bad for Your Wind.

PROFESSOR FOURMEN: Seeing you were back in Tip Top, I thought I would
write and ask you a few questions.

I belong to the Y. M. C. A.