ed, for he caught the thief in the very act
of pulling up the carrots. Then he cautiously followed him from the
garden, and found that he went off in the direction of the field where
the horse was. Arrived there, the owner of the carrots saw that his
horse was the receiver of his stolen goods. The thief was his dog. In
some way the dog had discovered that the horse had a partiality for
carrots, and was unable to gratify its taste; but with a sagacity that
is almost incredible, the dog found the means of obtaining the succulent
morsels for his friend, and this he did without scruple at his master's
expense. There was something more than instinct in this dog's head. But
any one who takes real notice of the habits and curious doings of
animals must inevitably come to the conclusion that the theory is not
tenable which maintains that animals can not think and reason.

[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]

I was very glad when papa brought me the first number of _Young
People_, and told me I should have it every week. When I read the
story of Watty Hirzel, the brave Swiss boy, it made me think of a
boy I saw last summer in the Tyrol, where I went with papa and
mamma. He was helping his father row a boat on the Koenigs-See, a
beautiful lake in the Bavarian Tyrol. I remember him because he had
a bunch of Alpine roses and Edelweiss, which he gave to mamma. We
had never seen any flowers like them before, and we wondered if
there was any pretty English name for the Edelweiss. Mamma thinks
that perhaps if I ask _Young People_ I shall find out. It is a
white flower, with leaves like velvet, and the little boatman said
it grew very high up on the mountains, where the chamois live.

MAMIE.

We do not know any pretty English name for Edelweiss. The German name is
composed of two words--_edel_, signifying _noble_, and _weiss_, _white_.
If you are studying botany, perhaps you can determine to what family the
flower belongs--that is, if you have any carefully pressed specimens.

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Will you please tell me why the Bank of England is called "the Old
Lady in Threadneedle Street," and who first called it so? I would
like to know, too, when the bank was founded, and when the building
it now occupies was erected.

INQUISITIVE JIM.

Will not some of our "young people" send answers to "Jim's" questions?