the drawing be _lightly_ rather than heavily done. Learn to
draw the _double lines_ of _stems_ and _veins_ with great correctness.
Make a darker line on the under edge of leaves, and on one side of the
stems. By turning the leaf on the wrong side the veins can be distinctly
seen, and easily drawn. Do not be discouraged, but _persevere_. Begin
to-morrow, or to-day: these beginnings may help you to become a skillful
sketcher, and will give to you a delightful occupation that will grow
dearer to your heart every day of your life.

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LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS.

I saw in YOUNG PEOPLE a letter from Edwin A. H., telling about his
cabinet. Although I have been collecting only three years I have
quite a cabinet. It contains a sea-cow, which measures fourteen
inches from the tip of its tail to the nose. It is larger than any
I have ever seen either in Chicago, New York, or Canada. That and
a sea-horse came from Cuba. I have also some fine specimens of
different corals and sponges; a box of agates and other stones
from Africa; some beautiful specimens of quartz from the Rocky
Mountains; a specimen from the Matanzas Cave in Cuba; a collection
of Indian arrow-heads; a variety of petrifactions, among them a
very large, perfect trilobite; a few very old coins, four of
which, I think, are from Pompeii; a collection of foreign stamps;
shells fro