other things. In sending specimens, correspondents will
please mark each plainly with the name and the locality where it
was found.

A few days ago I got my hand mashed in a cider mill, and can not
use it now. My brother is writing this letter for me.

HARRY R. BARTLETT,
Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky.

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I would like to exchange curiosities and stuffed birds with any
correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE.

C. H. MATHIAS, Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.

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I have taken every number of YOUNG PEOPLE since it was published,
and I think it is just splendid.

I am gathering specimens and curiosities, and would be glad to
exchange with any one.

CHARLIE LEADBETTER,
174 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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I have a printing-press and a small breech-loading shot-gun that
father made for me. I had a cat named Bill, but he is dead. He
would jump over my arms, and stand up on his hind-feet and kiss
me, and sit up in the corner.

I like the story of "The Moral Pirates" best of all. I and some
other boys are planning to go off on a cruise next summer.

I have a lot of foreign stamps which I would like to exchange for
Indian arrow-heads or Indian relics. I am eleven years old.

BERTIE HARRISON,
Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.

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I am just beginning a collection of curiosities, and would like to
exchange with some of the correspondents.

I have one brother. We live near a pond. Our pet kitten is very
fond of fish; and I go out in a row-boat and catch minnows for it.
I tie mussels on a string, and the minnows bite the bait and hold
fast. I caught two large minnows with a string alone.

JESSIE A. BROWN,
South Norwalk, Connecticut.

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I should like to exchange birds' eggs with any correspondent of
YOUNG PEOPLE. I have eggs of the following birds: hedge, song,
house, and chipping sparrow, bluebird, swallow, brown and red
thrush, peewit, woodpecker, meadow-lark, cat-bird, pigeon,
turtle-dove, ring-dove, and cardinal-grosbeak.

R. D. BRITTON, Wyoming, Ohio.

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I would like to exchange postage stamps, minerals, she