uld like to exchange minerals with some one in a Western or
Southern State.

EDWIN O. JORDAN,
Thomaston, Knox County, Maine.

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I have a pony of my own, and I ride him almost every day. I would
like to exchange stamps with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have
about four hundred stamps.

PIERRE JAY,
Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York.

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I am collecting postmarks of different towns and cities of this
and foreign countries. I have only two hundred now, but am very
anxious for more, and would like to exchange with any reader of
YOUNG PEOPLE.

STANLEY K. HAWKINS,
United States Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts.

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I am eleven years old, and my brother is nine. We are making a
collection of butterflies, moths, and bugs. We have caught three
hundred different kinds, and would like to exchange with any boy
or girl in the Western or Southern States.

WILLIAM M. LOW,
No. 129 Wooster Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

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ALBERT S. BARRETT.--It is impossible for us to help you. Try some of our
exchanges. You might arrange to send them minerals, or some other
natural curiosity, in exchange for what you wish.

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Yesterday morning auntie, uncle, and I went out for a long walk
over the mountains. When we reached the ridge, about a mile and a
half above us, we could look off and see one of the great peaks of
the Sierra, at the base of which is one of the best paying quartz
mines in California. It was a splendid sight--the great mountains
towering up to the sky, while on the top of one higher than any of
those immediately surrounding was the great black rock of the
Sierra Buttes. The lower part of the rock was covered with snow,
and behind it was the pale, misty, dull, blue sky. Off to the
eastward the ridge was covered with snow, and we had a walk on a
snow-bank several hundred feet long, and from four to six feet
deep. When we reached home we had some ripe cherries for dinner.

I keep every number of YOUNG PEOPLE, and auntie sews them
together for me with twine. Her HARPER'S BAZARS, MAGAZINES, and
WEEKLIES are all fixed the same way. I think YOUNG PEOPLE, is the
best