Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 Part 7

WILLIAM F. PENNEY, 559 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York.

I have a collection of postage and revenue stamps, and would like to exchange with readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

W. H. EASTMAN, Emporia, Kansas.

My mamma takes YOUNG PEOPLE for my sister Laura and me. We read all the stories, and are never tired of it.

We have a pair of pet pigeons named Polly and Dolly. When we first got them we had to put the food in their mouths, but now they can eat alone. When we come they hunt in our hands for something to eat.

I am a little Iowa girl, but my father came to live in Old Virginia almost five years ago. We live near Greenway Court, the old home of Lord Fairfax, and where General Was.h.i.+ngton surveyed the land when he was a very young man.

I am thirteen years old. I have a cabinet and a museum, and am collecting postmarks and stamps, which I would like to exchange with any correspondent.

MAY BELL MILLER, Care of Joseph A. Miller, Nineveh, Warren County, Virginia.

I am having a splendid time in Mamaroneck. I have a lot of chickens, and it is very funny to see the young roosters fight. I shall leave the country soon, and I would like to say to those wis.h.i.+ng to exchange stamps with me that after October 25 my address will be

PIERRE JAY, 291 Madison Avenue, New York City.

I am making a collection of postmarks, and would like to exchange with any correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE.

C. H. MCBRIDE, Rexford Flats, Saratoga County, New York.

I am making a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

JOSEPH SKIRM, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California.

I am very much interested in the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE. I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers.

H. GRAY, Albion, Orleans County, New York.

My younger sister takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it as well as she does. I have no pets, but I have a flower garden and a good many house plants. I would like to exchange flower seeds with any correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have sweet-pea, cypress, rose-moss, dew-plant, and other seeds.

MOLLIE C. MICHENER, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

I have read YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it started, and like it very much. I like "The Moral Pirates" and Jimmy Brown's stories about Mr. Martin the best.

I have a Chilian, a Greek, and a Portuguese coin which I would like to exchange with any reader who is collecting foreign coin. I have a collection of almost two hundred.

JOHN PYNE, Wisca.s.set, Maine.

I thought you would like a letter from this town, where a great battle was fought.

I spend many happy hours with the dear YOUNG PEOPLE. I love, most of all, the little letters, as it seems like talking to little people.

I am sick in bed, and have been for almost ten weeks. If my cough would get better, then I would get strong again. I am nine years old. I can read and write, and play little tunes on the piano. I fear the other little girls will get ahead of me now.

I wish "Wee Tot," or any of the little readers, would send me some ocean curiosities or quartz crystals for pressed leaves and ferns gathered on Round Top. My pet canary died last week.

NERVA WIBLE, Care of J. Ed. Wible, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

I have a nice collection of curiosities, and would like to exchange with any correspondent for sea-sh.e.l.ls or other curiosities. I have iron ore, soft gypsum crystals, stalact.i.tes, stalagmites, pretty pebbles, different kinds of limestone, pressed ferns, and 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.

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

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

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.