Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 Part 8

I am thirteen years old, and I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Northeast Georgia. My home is in a lovely valley, called Nacoochee. It was called after an Indian princess of that name.

I have two dogs--Cupid and Brave. Cupid is a rat-terrier, but he likes to hunt rabbits better than rats. Brave is a white and yellow spotted dog. He is also a good rabbit hunter.

I am making a collection of Indian relics and quartz. I would like to exchange specimens with some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

JOHN R. GLEN, Nacoochee, Georgia.

I have some little ponies. They are the prettiest little things you ever saw. And I have a nice Maltese kitty, and a little bird that sings like everything.

The town where I live was settled by the Hutchinson family of singers. I am nine years old.

I would like to exchange pressed flowers with Genevieve, or any other little girl in California.

MATTIE L. DAY, Hutchinson, Minnesota.

Yesterday morning I went to the Soldiers' Home, in Dayton, to spend the day. It is the largest and handsomest inst.i.tution of its kind in the United States. I went with a friend of mine, and we had a splendid time. What we enjoyed most were the flowers. We each bought a great number, and among others we got a quant.i.ty of pansies, which are my favorite flowers. I would like to exchange some pressed pansies for some of the floral beauties of California. I have a great many varieties, and some are very rare.

RALPH M. FAY, Xenia, Ohio.

If any boy living at the sea-side or in the South will exchange birds' eggs with me, I will be very much obliged, and will, as quick as I receive any, send eggs in return.

I would like all eggs sent to me to be plainly marked, that I may know what kind they are.

FRED R. BENEDICT, Norwalk. Huron County, Ohio.

If "Dot," of Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C., will send me her address, I would like to write to her. I am an invalid myself, and can sympathize with everybody that is sick in any way. I am eleven years old.

CLARA L. KELLOGG, Fulton, Oswego County, New York.

NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

I should like to tell the little girl named "Dot" all I know about taming birds. I had two canaries, and they both died, but my sister had one, and every day I would take it out of the cage and pet it. It became so tame that it would eat out of my hand, and when I let it out of its cage, it would fly upon the tops of the picture-frames, and sometimes come and perch upon my shoulder.

When school began I did not have time to pet it any more, and it became wild again.

N. L. V.

I am twelve years old. My mamma raises canary-birds. We are raising some mocking-birds, and if any of the correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE could arrange to exchange a pair of pure Maltese kittens for a singing mocking-bird, I would be very much pleased.

CORNELIA FITTS, West Point, Clay County, Mississippi.

I am making a collection of birds' eggs and minerals, and would like to exchange specimens with any one. I would like very much to have some birds' eggs from the North. I send a list of eggs which have all been found in the Georgia woods: jaybird, cat-bird, sap-sucker, thrush (two kinds), redbird, bluebird, wren (different kinds), mocking-bird, woodp.e.c.k.e.r, partridge, bee-martin, and several kinds of sparrows. Any of these I would like to exchange for other kinds.

I saw a letter in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 29 from Samuel P. Higgins, of New Jersey, offering to exchange eggs. If he has any kinds not mentioned in my list, I would be very glad to exchange with him.

ALICE I. PAINE, Ingleside Farm, Cherokee County, Georgia.

E. I. RADFORD.--E. & F. N. Span, New York city, can supply you with catalogues and books of all kinds relating to telegraphy.

WILLIE B. M.--The dates you require are given in "A Personation," on page 392 of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 28.

CHARLES L. S.--Fort Dodge, the military post, is in Kansas. There is a town in Iowa of the same name.

ELWYN A. S.--The sh.e.l.ls of your doves' eggs are soft because the doves probably eat nothing from which the sh.e.l.l can be formed. A piece of cuttle-fish hung in the cage might answer the purpose; or, still better, the sh.e.l.ls of hens' eggs broken in pieces and scattered in the cage. The doves also need plenty of clean gravel to scratch in.--Your first favor was acknowledged in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 19.

MAUD H. B.--In an article on "The House-Sparrow" in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 14 you will find out what kind of food your "sparrow named Hopkins" will like best.

PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

DIAMOND.

In marble. To lay a wager. To yield blossoms. An animal. Reptiles. An abbreviation. In ascend.

A. H. E.

No. 2.

WORD SQUARE.

First, to stuff. Second, a European city. Third, a boy's name. Fourth, a net-work.