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Tell him THE GREAT ROUND WORLD gave you his address, and he will send you
information about forming your club, and about the badges and rules.

You can do a great deal for suffering animals by interesting other boys
and girls in the work, and teaching them that we ought to be even kinder
to animals than we are to one another, because animals are dumb, and
cannot tell us when they suffer.

EDITOR.

We have great pleasure in informing our readers that we are about to
publish a volume of "GREAT ROUND WORLD Natural History Stories."

We know how much our young friends love _true_ stories. This collection
will contain only true stories, and has been written by one who was an
intimate friend, as she says, of each of these interesting creatures.

It has taken several years to collect them, and they are being prepared
and illustrated with the greatest care.

We publish one story as a supplement, and will be very glad if our readers
will let us know if it pleases them.

We are constantly having new books sent in to us. We would like to have
our subscribers read the books, and write us what they think of them.
Letters of this kind will be printed in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD from time to
time. Any of our subscribers who have had a letter about some book
published may become a "reader"--that is, new books will be given them to
read, and write an account of. If the account is well-enough written to be
published, the book may be kept; and others will be sent from time to time
for criticism of this kind.

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.

Some lover of the wheel, who evidently cannot bear to lose the pleasure of
wheeling even when the snow lies thick on the ground, has invented a
sleigh attachment. This is a runner fastened beneath the driving-wheel of
the bicycle.

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What a great thing this will be! Fancy wheeling away over the snow,
propelling our wheels as fast as the pedals can make us go.

The bicyclists ought to be very happy this year; so many clever brains are
working for their comfort and pleasure.

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All who ride have been troubled at times what to do with the bicycles when
they are standing still.

It may be there is damp grass, which would make it impossible to lay the
precious wheel down; or there may be a thousand other little
inconveniences.

Some one has come to the aid of the bicyclist, and invented a bicycle
support,