Stories for Boys and Girls
Happy New Year!
Is it possible! What has become of 1881? Whoever knew a year to fly away so fast before? Well, we start out together for 1882. We have many new friends, and new plans and hopes.
We hope to have all your names enrolled as members of the “PANSY SOCIETY” (for particulars look in another column). We hope to have many letters from you during the year.
In the column entitled “Where I Went and What I Saw,” we mean to tell you about a good many places and people which we think will please you. In the story entitled “Side by Side,” we expect you to become specially interested, for it is a very important story. As for “Reuben Stone,” the “Man of the House,” I have had so many letters from you during the year, expressing pleasure in the story, that I know you will like to follow my boy’s fortunes through another year.
For the rest, I will not make any promises, only this: If the “PANSY” is not a much better paper during the year 1882, I shall be very much astonished, and sadly disappointed.
Now I hope that every true Pansy will set to work for his and her paper. How many boys and girls do you know who do not take it? How many have you asked to do so? How many will you ask again? How many prizes for new subscribers do you intend to earn?
How I am pouring out the questions on you! Never mind, you are capable of answering them all.
Just one more, the most important of all. Bend your ear and let me whisper it: Do you begin this New Year with Jesus? Please write to me and answer that question. Yours lovingly, PANSY.