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.
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.
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.
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.
I would like to exchange postage stamps, minerals, shells, and Indian arrow-heads for stamps, pressed sea-weeds, or birds' eggs. The shells are labelled with their scientific names.
E. G. W., P. O. Box 487, Binghamton, New York.
We would request all correspondents not to send us long lists of stamps, eggs, and other things, as they occupy too much space in the Post-office Department. It is much better for them to prepare their lists neatly, and have them ready to send to those who write to them for exchange, after their request has been published in YOUNG PEOPLE.
We are compelled to condense the requests for exchange from the following correspondents:
Postage stamps and birds' eggs for postage stamps.
WILLIAM S. ALDRICH, Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.