CHAPTER VII.

FAREWELL TO THE CITY.

A day or two later, Phil, wrapped in shawls, was carried by Joe to a carriage, and the carriage rolled away to a wharf where puffed numerous steamboats; and here he was taken on board one of the river-steamers, and safely placed in the midst of a heap of pillows on deck, where he could see all the busy life about him--see the newspaper boys and the orange women, and the hurrying hacks and the great teams, and all the stir and tumult of the city's busiest hours. Miss Schuyler, in her cool gray suit, was on one side of him, and Lisa, looking tranquil and thoroughly glad and grateful, on the other, and Joe, just the happiest darky in the world, sat at his feet ready to take charge of all and everything.

They sailed and they sailed, away from the city and its many roofs, from the factory chimneys and the steeples, from the cloud of smoke which hung between the sky and house-tops, until they came to the hills and dales of pasture-lands and villages. Then they landed, and were whirled away in the cars, and Phil enjoyed it all, even the fatigue which made him sleep; and Joe carried him about as if he were a baby.

It was quite dark when, after a drive over a rather rough road, they reached the lake-side cottage which was Miss Schuyler's summer home, and Phil was glad to be put in bed, for the old pain had begun again.

When he opened his eyes the next morning, it was with a strange feeling of wonder at his new surroundings. Birds were twittering out-of-doors, and there was a soft lapping of water on the shore. The green boughs of a cherry-tree almost brushed against the window-panes. He was no longer in his old garret room, but in a pretty apartment, with bunches of rose-buds on the walls, and scent-bottles on the toilet table, and muslin curtains, and a bright carpet, and pretty book-shelves, and brackets, and lovely child-faces in the engravings; and on a broad table was a little easel, and a paint-box, and drawing-paper; and here too was his old box with the violin strings.

"Oh," said Phil, softly, "I wonder if heaven is any better than this!"

He had closed his eyes as he said it, and went over his usual morning prayer of thankfulness; and when he opened his eyes, there was Lisa with his breakfast tray--poached eggs and toast and a goblet of milk.

"Lisa, Lisa, is not this too nice for anything?" asked Phil.

"Yes, indeed, dear, it is nice. Miss Schuyler says you must hurry and get strong, so that you can make the acquaintance of the hens that laid these eggs for you, and the cow whose milk is to do you so much good."

"What is the cow's name, Lisa?"

"I don't know," said Lisa.

"It is Daisy," said Miss Schuyler, coming in to say good-morning. "She's a lovely little Alderney, and her milk is like cream. Oh, you will soon be strong enough to row my boat for me."

"A boat!--have you a boat?"

"Yes, and you are going out on the lake in her this very morning."

"It is just too much happiness, Miss Schuyler."

"Well, we will not overpower you. For a day or two you must rest, and do nothing but breathe the sweet air. I have to be busy getting things in order and looking after my garden. Lisa will take her work on the piazza, and you can lie in one of the easy-chairs. Joe is to wait on you, and do a little weeding, and keep the paths in order, and bail out the boat; and the old man seems to be very much at home already. So that is the order of the day. Now good-by, and don't do too much thinking."

"One moment, Miss Schuyler; do you believe in fairies?"

"Just a little," said Miss Schuyler, with a quizzical smile.

"Well, I believe in them," said Phil, "and I think you are one of the best of them."

"Oh no, I am very human, dear Phil, as you will find out. And now I must go look after my strawberry beds. Good-by."

"Good-by," said Phil, waving her a kiss. "Only think, Lisa, we will actually see strawberries growing! It is quite fairy-land for me."

After that he was carried down to the easy-chair on the piazza, where he could see the lawn sloping down to the lake, and watch the birds lighting on the rim of a vase full of daisies and running vines. He could see that the cottage was low and broad, and painted in two shades of brown; that there were arbors covered with grapevines on one side, and on the other he knew there were flower beds and fruit trees, for every once in a while Miss Rachel was to be seen emerging from there in a broad straw flat, and with buckskin gloves, trailing long bits of string or boughs of green stuff, with scissors and trowel and watering-can.

Lisa had her work-basket, and with deft fingers and a little under-tone of psalmody was fashioning a pretty summer garment. Then Miss Rachel came and tossed a basketful of early roses and syringa down beside Phil, and put a little table beside him, with some slender glass vases and a pitcher of water, and asked him to arrange the flowers for her. This he was glad to do, and made the bunches up as prettily as his nice taste suggested. But he was really wearied with great happiness. It was all so new, so charming, every sense was so satisfied, that at last he closed his eyes and slept.

It seemed to him only a little while, but when he opened his eyes again, Lisa was beside him with his dinner; and after dinner he slept again, and when he wakened the lawn was in shadow, and the sun low in the sky, and the birds were twittering and seeking their nests, and Miss Rachel was telling Joe to put cushions in the boat, the _Flyaway_; and presently Phil found himself floating gently on the lovely water of the lake, and the cottage and lawn and arbors were looking like a pretty bit of landscape he had seen in books.

He dipped his fingers in the clear water, and looked down at the pebbly bottom, and listened to the even dip of the oars, as old Joe rowed farther out from shore.

"It must be fairy-land," thought Phil, but he said nothing; he was too happy to talk. And so the day ended, the first day in the country.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

PINAFORE RHYMES.--(_Continued._)

Bow! wow! wow! You'd better run; I'm just the dog to spoil your fun; I'll tear your dresses, and bite your heels, Till every one of you shrieks and squeals. So, there! I've scared them well, I must say; But I'm very glad that they ran away; It wouldn't have been such jolly fun, If they had made me turn tail and run.

Six chimney-sweeps, each black as a crow, Had a big fight with a man of snow. They beat him to pieces because he was white, And had a triumphant feast that night. Their dishes were blackbirds and crows, 'tis said, Chimney-soot pudding and charcoal bread. And they swallowed a dozen bottles of ink, Being very choice in their meat and drink.

Here, you little monkey, you, I want to see you play with Lu; She's such a pretty little miss, Shake hands with her, and give a kiss. _Won't!_

Why not, when Lulu wants to play, And asks in such a pretty way? _Can't!_ Why not, you little sauce-box, say? _Sha'n't!_

Here's a dainty little tree, With its spreading leaves so free; It's so pretty, that I will Keep it on my window-sill.

RATON, NEW MEXICO.

My brother and sisters and myself live at Chicorica Park. It is a very pretty place, situated in the Raton Mountains. We have had parties of as many as three hundred Indians hunting in our cañon at once, but it is a year and a half now since we have seen any. We have a good many deer here. Seven have been killed since Christmas, but one was carried off by a mountain lion.

We like HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE very much, especially the Jimmy Brown stories, and "Toby Tyler." We are all English children, and have never lived anywhere in America except in New Mexico. Our pets are dogs and cats and a colt. We like the colt best of all.

We have had some very heavy snow-storms, and the cañon has been impassable several times this winter, so we have not received YOUNG PEOPLE very regularly. I am twelve years old.

G. KERCHEVAL M.

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CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PENNSYLVANIA.

I like the life of Lafayette which was published in YOUNG PEOPLE so much! I have the lives of generals in my history, but the way they are written in YOUNG PEOPLE is so much more interesting! I wish the paper was published twice a week, it seems so long to wait to hear how Toby Tyler gets along. On Wednesday morning it is "Hallo! has YOUNG PEOPLE come?" all over our house. Mamma says it is a great blessing. We think the little girl with her first muff in the picture in No. 68 is so sweet and chubby and baby-like, that if she was alive we should just love her to death.

I have a dog named Major, who sits up on his hind-legs and hangs down his fore-paws pitifully, as if they were broken, and some people think they really are; but Major only does it to beg for candy. He has many friends, and sometimes they bring him sticks of candy all the way from Philadelphia.

It has been so cold here this winter that some of our sparrows fell to the ground half frozen. We brought them into the house, and when they got warm we opened the window and let them fly away.

GEORGY H.

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BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.

I am six years old. I began to take YOUNG PEOPLE on the first of January, and I like it ever so much. I learned the little poem in No. 66 about the strawberry vines, and how the snowy blanket covered their saucy little heads. I speak it for grandma, and she says it is beautiful.

Christmas papa gave me a beautiful little stove, all nickel-plated. I bake pies and cake and other nice things for my little friends and myself to eat.

My uncle brought me a doll from New York city, and my other uncle gave me a little trunk to put her clothes in.

ETHEL B.

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DENISON, IOWA.

I wish YOUNG PEOPLE came every day instead of once a week. I was so sorry when "Mildred's Bargain" was finished! but I like the other stories ever so much, especially "Toby Tyler." I read all the letters in the Post-office Box, and wish I could see all the boys and girls who write them. The little girl away down in Texas who wrote about the first snow has no idea how much fun we Northern children have coasting on the snow crust, sometimes over drifts eight and ten feet deep.

Last Friday I spoke "Lily's Ball," the poem in No. 67 of YOUNG PEOPLE, at my school, and next week I am going to speak "My First Muff," in No. 68.

MABEL.

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NEW YORK CITY.

I think Toby Tyler is a great boy. We used to have a monkey named Jack. Every night he would put a shawl over his head and go to sleep. Sometimes he would hold the kitten in his arms and try to put her to sleep. He would get on our pig's back, and hold on to his ears, and ride all around, and he would ride horseback to the village. When any one went out, he would watch to see if any candy were brought home, and if it was, he would stand on his hind-legs and put out his paw until the paper was opened. I am almost eight years old.

WILLIE K. T.

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HOUSTON, TEXAS, _February_ 22, 1881.

I wish to notify correspondents that I have exchanged to the full extent of my collection, and I beg them not to write to me any more.

H. C. YANCEY.

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FOREST LAKE, PENNSYLVANIA.

My papa promised me YOUNG PEOPLE as soon as I could read it myself. I tried very hard after that, and last November, on my seventh birthday, sure enough it came. I don't believe any little boy enjoys it more than I do. I must tell you of one thing it has done for me. I was always afraid to be left alone, especially after dark. After reading the story in No. 55 about the little girl who broke herself of being so timid, I went every night from garret to cellar all alone after dark, and now I am not afraid to go anywhere in the house, even if it is very dark.

I have a little brother named Harry. I love him very much. He likes the pictures in YOUNG PEOPLE as much as I do. I think Jimmy Brown is jolly.

WRIGHTIE G.

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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

I have two mocking-birds for pets. They whistle so pretty! I am going to have a pretty flower garden this summer. Spring is here (February 16), and the peach-trees are budding, and everybody is making gardens.

I like all the stories in YOUNG PEOPLE. I always laugh so hard when mamma reads Jimmy Brown to me! I wish he would send another story.

MAY K.

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_February_ 24, 1881.

I have no more pure white coral left, but I have a piece with a little red in it which I will send to a boy who sent me a specimen of ore, if he will kindly send me his address again.

I would like to send "Wee Tot" a piece of red coral from the Red Sea, if she will send me some ocean curiosities and her address.

SALLIE KELLEY, Kleine St., East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Fred Glasier, of Adams, Massachusetts, regrets being unable to make a return for some favors he has received, as the addresses, although given, were so illegible that he could not decipher them. Addresses should always be written distinctly. The Post-office Box is often compelled to neglect exchanges which are pretty and suitable, because the address is as mysterious as the hieroglyphics on our Egyptian obelisk.

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Last year my father gave me a Columbia bicycle. We have a bicycle club here, with about twenty members, of which I am one. Our suit is brown corduroy, with red stockings. The cap is like the suit.

I would like to exchange some of the first American pennies and halfpennies, for foreign coins.

ARTHUR C. KETCHAM, Care of William P. Ketcham. P. O. Box 10, Yonkers, N. Y.

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I will exchange bayberry-tallow, for peacock coal, or postage stamps from Cape of Good Hope or Barbadoes.

A. M. FORMAN, 116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle (_Myrica cerifera_). This shrub, which is very aromatic, grows in great abundance all along the Atlantic coast. It is found in such quantities in some localities of Long Island that the gathering of the berries and the manufacture of tallow for candles amount to an extensive local industry.

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I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since the first copy. My brother has bound it with strings, and it makes a very pretty volume.

I have often answered correspondents, always receiving, in exchange for foreign stamps, articles of equal value.

I have nearly two thousand duplicates of foreign stamps, which I will exchange for other foreign stamps, or for stamps of United States departments. I will also exchange postmarks for anything interesting.

JOHN THOMAS, 3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

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My mamma says she will make a pretty flower out of any little girl's hair, or her mamma's, in exchange for curious shells, minerals, or a genuine Indian bow and arrow. A bunch of hair from one to two feet long and as thick as a goose quill will make a pretty flower.

ADELLA P. LIPPINCOTT, New Hope, Bucks County, Penn.

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I have four Chilian stamps, which I would like to exchange for other South American stamps. I have made a man with a basket on his back from Wiggle 17, which I send.

EDWARD H. PALMER, 44 Schiffleutstaden, Strasburg, Germany.

Your Wiggle is excellent, and we are very sorry it arrived too late to be printed with others.

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I have noticed in the exchanges there are many who want birds' eggs. It does not seem quite right to me, because if we take all the eggs, we destroy all the birds. I will exchange shells and pebbles from Lake Erie, for any curiosity except birds' eggs.

JESSIE G. SMITH, 327 West Fourth Street, Erie, Penn.

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The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:

Postmarks and stamps of all kinds.

GEORGE LINSCOTT, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas.

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Twenty-five postmarks, for five stamps from any country except Europe, Canada, and the United States.

F. S. and B. S., P. O. Box 582, Lansing, Mich.

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Dried ferns from the highest peaks of the Alleghanies, for pieces of silk for a quilt.

LUCY SHARP, P. O. Box 73, Bridgeton, N. J.

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Stamps.

SAMMY BEANS, 103 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.

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Postmarks or stamps, for stamps.

JEROME G. EDDY, Lock Box 111, Geneva, N. Y.

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A piece of Irish peat, for soil and seed from the far West or South, especially cotton seed, or for a piece of lava.

D. ALLAN WEBER, Searsport, Waldo County, Maine.

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Stamps.

N. S. SCHWARZ, 105 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.

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Postage stamps and postmarks, for stamps.

WILLIAM M. BEAMAN, U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Penn.

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A Canadian coin, for five Montenegro stamps.

CHARLIE HUBBARD, 30 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.

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Shells, for Indian relics.

AARON KING, 80 Ellison Street, Paterson, N. J.

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Texas moss, flints, insects, woods, pressed flowers, and other natural curiosities, for foreign postage stamps, woods, Indian arrow-heads, and all kinds of minerals.

J. S. and WILLIE G. DAVIS, Care of J. T. Davis, P. O. Box 122, Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.

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Postmarks, for stamps, curiosities, or minerals. Ten postmarks, for one rare stamp; or twenty, for a good curiosity.

CHARLIE NICHOLS, 288 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

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Postage stamps, for stamps, minerals or coins.

RALPH L. EMERSON, P. O. Box 105, Brookline, Mass.

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Postage stamps, for the same, or pressed wild flowers.

FRED CHENEY, 41 Fort Avenue, Boston, Mass.

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Foreign postage stamps.

HENRY PAYNE, Mankato, Minn.

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Stamps, for coins.

A SUBSCRIBER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE," First National Bank, Bay City, Mich.

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A small piece of sulphate of iron, for foreign postage stamps.

HARRY W. TOWNLEY, Sayreville, N. J.

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Stamps, for coins.

W. T. CRANE, 124 Washington Street, Hoboken, N. J.

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Stamps, for anything suitable for a museum.

D. G. BARNETT, 406 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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German postage stamps, for other foreign stamps.

ARTHUR E. CAMPBELL, 222 Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

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Five postmarks, for one foreign stamp.

GUY F. BARKER, St Albans, Franklin County, Vt.

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Rare postmarks (Illinois especially) and postage stamps, for foreign and old issues of United States stamps.

MANNING A. LOGAN, 812 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

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Three varieties of internal revenue stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or curiosities.

EDWIN E. SLOSSON, Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas.

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United States and foreign postage stamps, for stamps from Hamburg, Mexico, and Japan.

HARRY C. BREARLEY, 180 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

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Postage stamps, for specimens of gold, silver, copper, or tin ore.

ALLY B. HALLIDAY, 406 West Forty-third Street, New York City.

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Minerals, fossils, shells, and Indian relics (a large collection of the latter), for minerals, shells, and seaweed. Only good specimens desired.

ED GOHL, 7 South Third Street, Harrisburg, Penn.

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Stones from Connecticut, Texas, and Mississippi, also cotton as it comes from the field, for foreign postage stamps.

JAMES MCKENNA, 4 West Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

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A Norwegian halfpenny, date 1867, two Cape of Good Hope stamps, and a flint an inch long, for Indian arrow-heads and petrified wood.

GEORGE E. PRINGLE, Hastings, Minn.

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Shells from the Indian and Pacific oceans, for fossils of animals or plants.

HENRY W. HAND, Green Creek, Cape May County, N. J.

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Foreign postage stamps, for Indian relics and curiosities.

FLAVEL S. MINES, Kirkwood Hotel, Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Mo.

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Postmarks, postage and revenue stamps, and monograms, for postage and revenue stamps.

K. G. EASTON, West Berkeley, Cal.

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Thirty foreign stamps, for five stamps of the following countries: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Cape of Good Hope, Hong-Kong.

H. L. J., Lock Box 721, Granville, Licking County, Ohio.

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Postmarks, for stamps.

JAMES G. BARBOUR, 25 Fulton Street, Pittsburgh, Penn.

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Twenty-eight old coins, for any curiosity or Indian relics. A good Indian bow and a few arrows especially desired.

A SUBSCRIBER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE," P. O. Box 930, Rushford, Fillmore Co., Minn.

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A few shells from Calcutta, India, for ocean curiosities, or any pretty thing for a collection. Mosses and pressed ferns especially desired. Flower seeds also exchanged.

ELLA STULL, Greenville, Darke County, Ohio.

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Ten foreign postage stamps, for an Indian arrow-head, or two stamps from the Cape of Good Hope.

FREEMAN WOODBRIDGE, Care of Dr. J. Woodbridge, New Brunswick. N. J.

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Postmarks and Canadian postage stamps, for shells from the Pacific and Southern coasts, or other curiosities. Correspondents will please label specimens.

MISS M. FRANK LE COUNT, South Norwalk, Conn.

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Stones from the Arkansas River, cotton as it comes from the field, cotton seed, postmarks, and scales of the alligator gar-fish, for United States or foreign coins. Correspondents will please label coins.

COLLECTOR, care of Postmaster, Heckatoo, Lincoln County, Ark.

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Old United States and foreign postage stamps, for coins and minerals.

GUSTAVUS SCHAEMBER, 159 Prince Street, New York City.

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Ten Pennsylvania postmarks, for the same number of any other State or Territory, or Canada.

CLIFF C. GARRISON, Brookville, Jefferson County, Penn.

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Twenty-five postmarks, for five rare postage stamps.

R. C. WILLIAMS, JUN., 240 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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A stone from Pennsylvania, for one from any other State; or postmarks, for foreign stamps--Chinese especially desired.

WALTER J. WELLS, Oswayo, Potter County, Penn.

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An ounce of the soil of New York, for the same from any other State. Western soil particularly desired.

ERNEST S. GREEN, 123 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Sea-shells, for foreign postage stamps.

C. H. TUCKER, 63 Cass Avenue, Corner of Adams, Detroit, Mich.

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Fragments of figured pottery from sites of ancient Mohawk Indian villages, for Indian relics from other localities.

R. C. HALL, Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y.

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Stones from the shore of Lake Erie, for stones or ores from other localities, or foreign postage stamps.

FRANK W. FULLKERSON, 78 Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

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European, Chinese, and Japanese postage stamps, for minerals.

CLARENCE HENNE, 39 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, N. J.

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Latest issues of German, French, and Italian postage stamps, and curiosities, for curiosities.

L. H. TROTTER, 22 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

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Postmarks, for fossils and minerals.

FLETCHER M. NOE, 165 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Ind.

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Foreign postage stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or fossils.

HARRY S. JEANES, 521 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

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Postage stamps, postmarks, minerals, shells, wood, feathers, or any Texas curiosity, for copper or zinc ore, ocean curiosities, or anything suitable for a museum.

FRANK D. DAVIS, Groesbeck, Texas.

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United States War Department stamps, for foreign stamps.

MONTGOMERY M. TAYLOR, Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.

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Coins, for an Indian tomahawk or pipe, shells, minerals, coins, or other curiosities.

ALFRED W. KERR, 22 Crescent Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.

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G. H.--"The Story of George Washington" ran through ten numbers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, Vol. I., beginning in No. 24, April 13, and ending in No. 33, June 15.

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CLEMENT L. AND VIRGINIA H. P.--In 1872, Captain Lawson, an Englishman, accompanied by a band of natives, explored the island of Papua, or New Guinea. In the published account of his travels mention is made of Mount Hercules, which, according to his measurements, is 32,783 feet above the sea-level, or over 3000 feet higher than Mount Everest. Captain Lawson's statement has not yet been verified by farther scientific investigation, and the latest geographies and encyclopædias continue to name Mount Everest as the highest known peak on the earth's surface.

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MINNIE G.--A Brazilian silver milreis, or one thousand reis, is worth about fifty-one cents, United States currency. The face value of a ten-reis postage stamp is about half a cent.--Cancelled stamps are commonly used in exchange by our correspondents, as new ones are difficult to obtain, especially those of foreign countries.

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A. A. Y. C.--The cost of material for sail-boat described in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 66 is about fifteen dollars. For the other information you require, go to the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, in which city you live, and talk with the boatmen and boat-builders there.

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J. M.--A new boat like the one you describe will cost from seventy-five to one hundred dollars. You may be able to obtain one second-hand in good condition for half that sum. The expense of starting a club would depend entirely upon the outlay to which the members mutually agree. It might be confined to the price of your boat and rowing suits, and the rent of some place to store your boat.

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JOHN T.--A note from Mr. Casey, containing his address and a kind offer to reply to correspondents, was printed in the Post-office Box of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 61.

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WILLIE B. S.--When the Colonial Congress was in session in Philadelphia in 1774 a motion was made to open the proceedings with prayer. It was opposed on the ground that as the members belonged to different denominations, they would be unable to join in the same act of worship. But Mr. Samuel Adams, who was a strict Presbyterian, said he could listen to a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue who was at the same time a friend to his country, and named Mr. Jacob Duché, an Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, as such a person. The motion was then passed, and Mr. Duché appeared the next morning, and officiated with great fervor. He subsequently became a traitor to his country, and even attempted to persuade Washington to desert to the British.

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WALTER S. D.--The two New York firms that carry and distribute mail matter within the limits of the city of New York are Boyd's Dispatch and Hussey's Dispatch. They claim this right in virtue of a special privilege given them many years ago by the city government. Whatever this right may be in theory, it certainly holds good in practice, for the general government has tried time and time again to break up these concerns, but without avail.

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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

ENIGMA.

My first in quill, not in pen. My second in duck, not in hen. My third in river, not in lake. My fourth in biscuit, not in cake. My fifth in soon, not in late. The capital I of a foreign state, Upon whose shore by night and day The Pacific dashes in foam and spray.

DAME DURDEN.

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No. 2.

WORD CHANGES.

1. Rain to snow. 2. Rags to silk. 3. Mill to cent. 4. Sin to woe. 5. Sold to lost. 6. Line to cord. 7. Nay to yea. 8. Glue to mend.

FRANK L. L.

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No. 3.

EASY CONCEALMENTS.

Cities and Countries.--1. Here is a new portfolio for Carrie. 2. Ponto led Oliver to the stream. 3. I shall see Charles to-night. 4. Helen and Anna may go to the fair.

M. L. H.

5. He is no liar, men; I am the culprit. 6. Madam, as custodian of the library, I must forbid you to remove books. 7. I gave orders that he be set to work immediately. 8. Her picture was set in diamonds.

BELL.

Trees.--9. Did you know that Will owns a horse? 10. This pin equals an iron bar in strength. 11. We heard the croak of a raven. 12. Steam-engines propel many boats. 13. It appeared to me that he was false. 14. Philip, each one of your sums is wrong. 15. The plumes of Crécy round him waved.

ED.

Birds and Beasts.--16. His rib is broken. 17. How did that occur, Lewis? 18. He muttered words none could understand. 19. Jim and Caspar rowed us over the river.

MARGARET.

20. I abhor seeing you in that dress. 21. Behind them came Lucy, all in white. 22. Would you like to be a Russian? 23. Dover is the capital of Delaware. 24. The medicine is more bitter now than it was at first. 25. The fairy's wand is broken.

EMILY and CLARA.

26. Isaac, row faster! 27. The lobsters nip Essie's fingers. 28. Seth rushed in and told them.

MILLIE.

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No. 4.

CHARADE.

My first is a troublesome insect. My second might be applied to every boy and girl during dinner-time. My whole consumes my first.

NORMAN.

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No. 5.

ENIGMA.

In cold, not in heat. In shoe, not in feet. In flutter, not in flaunt. In wish, not in want. In stone, not in brick. In hen, not in chick. In rough, not in kind. In thought, not in mind. To gather my whole on an autumn day For country boys is sport and play.

LENA S. F.

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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 69.

No. 1.

S P A I N P A R T A R T I T N

No. 2.

Tiger.

No. 3.

Across.--1. Stork. 2. Sport. 3. Heron. 4. Civil. 5. Drain. 6. Dregs. 7. Refer. 8. Flint. 9. Oasis. 10. Sword. 11. Freak. 12. Spare. 13. Dross. Zigzags--Spring flowers.

No. 4.

M P A R F A C E T P A N A C E A M A C A R O N I C R E C O V E R T E N E T A I R C

No. 5.

Lifetime.

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Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jessie A. Allen, H. V. B., Bessie Bolton, Laura Brick, Charles H. Cole, Alice Cantine, Lulu C., W. Chase, R. O. Chester, "Dawley Boys," Harry H. Dickinson, L. Jay E., Lena S. Fox, "L. U. Stral," William A. Lewis, Howard B. Lent, Adella R. Lippincott, C. H. McBride, "Philo S. Opher," Willy Rochester, D. J. Reinhart, Frank W. Smith, Gilbert P. Salters, "Starry Flag," Dora N. Taylor, W. I. Trotter, "Ed. I. Torial," Willie F. Woolard, Edith M. Wetmore, Annie Wheeler, "Young Solver."

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STRING TRICKS.

BY HELEN P. STRONG.

Every boy and girl knows the mysteries of the "cat's-cradle"--of course you do, as well as you know your "Aina, maina, mona, mite"--but do you know that the "cat's-cradle" does not begin to exhaust the possibilities of a piece of string? "Indian-box" mysteries and "inexhaustible hats" are not to be compared with it for simplicity of contrivance. Given a piece of string a yard long, and ten nimble fingers (counting thumbs), and you have all the apparatus needed to astonish your friends for a whole evening. I hope the accompanying illustrations and description will be sufficient to give you the secret of one of these wonderful string tricks. And now you shall be enlightened as to the

BUTTON-HOLE MYSTERY.

Secure a piece of strong cord a yard in length, and having tied the ends firmly together, pass the double end through your button-hole, and a thumb through each loop, as in Fig. 1. Now slip the little finger of your _left_ hand under the lower string of the loop which passes over the _right_ thumb, and the little finger of the _right_ hand under the lower string of the loop which passes over the _left_ thumb, separating the hands as in Fig. 2. Now comes the mystery. A quick movement of both hands, without releasing the string from either thumbs or little fingers, will give the effect of a tangle which can only be extricated by cutting the string or the button-hole. You add to the illusion by sawing a little on the button-hole to direct the attention to the impossibility of loosening the string at that point; then suddenly, without letting go either hand, you present the string-free from the button-hole though still securely tied.

The secret lies in this: if you look carefully at Fig. 2, you will discover that the little finger of one hand and the thumb of the other are really holding the same loop; so you have only to retain your hold at these points, letting the rest go, to draw the string out of the button-hole with freedom.

But you may find it rather difficult at first to make the proper thumb and finger act quickly and in unison, apart from the twin brother of each; for thumbs, and also little fingers, are like twin children, and, unless well trained, one always wants to do what the other does. But you will succeed if you think very hard for a moment, for that is the way the mind makes naughty hands and feet obey her commands.

THE LOSING BAG.

Little Harry Careless Was always losing things-- Shoes and hats, and slates and books, Pencils, marbles, strings-- Till at last his mother Took a faded flag (A great, enormous one it was) And made of it a bag.

"Now, my careless Harry," Said she, with a kiss, "When you feel like losing things, Pop them into this." "That I will," cried Harry, Happy as a king; And since he's had the losing bag He's never lost a thing.

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881, by Various