w he wants to go fishing in a
boat. He is almost ten, and I am seven.

Mamma says, Tell Puss Hunter to set her bread to rise in a deep
vessel, as the less surface exposed, the better it is, as the gas
is kept confined in the dough. A flannel cloth to cover it with is
best, for the same reason. Mamma says she is a friend to all
little bakers.

MYRTIE BELLE E.

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I would like to exchange dried grasses, Southern moss, birds' eggs
and nests, for sea-shells, with any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE.

HORACE L. BARLOW,
Refugio, Refugio County, Texas.

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I would be glad to exchange birds' eggs with any correspondent of
YOUNG PEOPLE.

S. E. STRONG,
1394 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

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I am eleven years old. I have a pony, some rabbits, guinea-pigs,
and ferrets. Not long ago my pony went into the bantam-house, and
ate up a whole boxful of oats which was standing there. Then he
pulled down a bag of oats, and scattered them all over the floor.
I have two canaries which have set twice this spring, but have not
raised a bird.

I would like to exchange pressed flowers with some little girl in
California.

WINNIE WALDRON,
Care of Mr. E. H. Waldron, Lafayette, Indiana.

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Will Harry Starr Kealhofer, of Memphis, Tennessee, please send his full
address, and a list of stamps he wishes to exchange, to M. C. Stryker,
corner of Argyle Avenue and Biddle Street, Baltimore, Maryland?

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Will you please tell me the origin of the name of strawberries? I
take YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it very much, and my little cousins in
Louisiana take it too. I am eight years old.

WINNIE S. G.

The word strawberry is from the Anglo-Saxon, and was formerly written
_streawberie_. The reason for applying the name to the delicious little
fruit is undecided. Some authorities hold that it should be written
strayberry, and that it refers to the creeping or straying habit of the
vines.

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C. L. B.--Alwur, sometimes written Alwar or Alvar, is a town of India,
eighty-five miles southwest of Delhi.

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BONANZA, IDAHO.

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