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N. P. G.

OSWEGO, NEW YORK.

I am fourteen years old. I enjoy YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I always read all the stories and all the letters. I wish some little girl would tell me how to make some Christmas presents, some that would be pretty and not very expensive. I have made almost everything I can think of.

I am going to try the hanging basket described by Daniel D. L., which I think will make a very pretty ornament. I would like to ask him if it is necessary to empty the cup, and put in all fresh water every morning, or if only to fill in what has evaporated is sufficient.

We have had a big snow-storm here. It begun in the night, and lasted until noon to-day .

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since the first number, and now I am beginning the second volume. I am going to take it always.

J. T. M.

BERLIN HEIGHTS, OHIO.

Correspondents wishing a catalogue of birds' eggs can obtain one by sending ten cents in stamps or silver to W. J. Knowlton, 168 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

MILTON D. C.

All boys from eleven to sixteen are invited to become members of a debating society on a legal basis. The debates are carried on by mail. For further particulars address, inclosing a three-cent stamp for answer, the recording secretary,

A. G. NORRIS, 2222 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We hope this new society will meet with better success than the one noticed in the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE No, 52. The idea is very good, and if well developed might prove beneficial to the youthful debaters. We are requested by N. L. Collamer, to whom communications for the first society were to be addressed, to inform those from whom he received answers to his proposition, that in spite of all his efforts, and much to his regret, the club he tried to form was not successful. Correspondents will please accept this statement as an explanation why their letters to him have remained unanswered.

I wish to inform those boys with whom I have been exchanging that as the nesting season is over I have no more eggs.

I have two United States half-cent pieces, one of 1804 and one of 1825, which I will exchange for some United States Department stamps, or old issues of postage stamps.

WALLACE ROSS, Lock Box 97, Rutland, Vermont.

I have a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to exchange with any subscriber of YOUNG PEOPLE. I will exchange the egg of a king-bird for one of a martin. I would request all correspondents to label distinctly all eggs they may send.

CHARLES MATTHEWS, P. O. Box 15, Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York.

I would like to exchange postage stamps. I have some very rare stamps from Greece and from South America.

PEYTON A. SAVIN, 1262 Lexington Avenue and Eighty-fifth Street, New York City.

I have a collection of nineteen hundred and twenty stamps, and a great many duplicates. I would like to exchange with Charles H. W., of Brooklyn, New York, who has such a large collection. If he will send me his address and a list of his duplicates, I will send him a list of my best ones.

K. S., P. O. Box 203, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

I live in a little town of about eighteen houses, on the Champlain Canal, thirty miles from Saratoga. I have a printing-press, a collection of birds' eggs, and some white bantams and some rabbits. I have to go five miles every morning to a military school. I stay there all day, and ride home in a stage at night.

I would like to exchange flower seeds, birds' nests, and specimens of quartz for postmarks, stamps, birds' eggs, or curiosities.

Will you please tell me how to mount postmarks properly?

GEORGE E. BAKER, Comstocks, Washington County, New York.

Postmarks should be mounted in the same manner as stamps. You will find directions for mounting specimens neatly and conveniently in the paper entitled "Stamp Collecting," in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 54.

My brother and myself are collecting coins, minerals, birds' eggs, shells, and stamps, and will be glad to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. Some one sent us a box of shells and a star-fish, but unaccompanied by any address. If we can find out who sent it, we will be glad to send something in return.

L. F. BREHMER, Penn Yan, Yates County, New York.

I like very much to read the letters in the Post-office Box. I, too, am trying to make a collection of stones, one from each State. I would like to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I will give a stone from either Wisconsin, Illinois, or Colorado for one from any other locality.

MAMIE H. BALL, Augusta, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.

I would like to exchange a box of good paints for a little engine.

E. BENSON, Care of W. H. Francis, 749 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey.

We wish very much to get a bow from the Indian country, and if any boy or girl living there would send each of us an Indian bow about five feet long, with a few arrows, we will give in return pressed leaves, or a winter bouquet of Minnesota grasses, or any curiosities we can get in this locality, or in the spring we would send in return a collection of birds' eggs.

MAUD POOL and PHEBE EDDY, Morristown, Rice County, Minnesota.

We are compelled to condense the following offers for exchange:

Coins and postage stamps.

WILLIE T. KNOX, 2318 Third Avenue, New York City.

Postage stamps and eggs.

PEREZ S. BURR, Freeport, Maine.

Postage stamps for postal cards and stamps.

ANITA R. NEWCOMB, 1336 Eleventh Street, Washington, D. C.

Ohio postmark for postmarks from any other State, and old issues of United States postage and revenue stamps for foreign stamps.

GEORGE E. FRAZIER, Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio.

Postmarks for different kinds of buttons.

MARY P. BICE, 39 Second Street, Utica, New York.

P. S. B.--A cheap, substantial squirrel cage may be made in the following manner: Take a piece of board about eighteen inches wide and three feet long for the bottom. Fasten upright boards about three feet high at each end. These end pieces must be rounded at the top. Now buy from any dealer in hardware a piece of coarse strong wire netting long enough to go over your wooden frame, and nail it securely to the bottom board on one side, and to each of the end pieces, bending it over the rounded top. If you fasten it with stout tacks, it will be strong enough, and there will be no danger of splitting the wood of the ends. On the front of the cage the netting should stop within three inches of the bottom, so as to leave room to put in a drawer, like the drawer of a bird-cage, which you must pull out and clean every morning. Make the drawer of a sheet of tin. Any tinsmith will turn up the sides for you, leaving the front a little higher than the others, so as to overlap the netting. If you can procure the wire netting only of a certain width, grade the length of your cage accordingly.

If you can get a stout branching bough of some hard wood, fasten it securely from end to end of the cage before putting on the wire covering, as your pet will enjoy climbing about on it much better than running in a revolving cylinder, which is neither healthy nor natural exercise for a squirrel. The end boards must also be of some hard wood, or the sharp teeth of your little pet will soon make sad havoc with them.

Now for the sleeping apartment. Cut a round hole in one of the end boards near the bottom, and fasten on the outside a neat little box, the bottom of which must be level with that of the cage, so as to present the appearance of a tiny extension. In this box there must be a hinged door large enough to allow you to change the bedding, which must be clean dry moss or cotton-wool, and through which you can feed your pet. You can also cut a small hole in the wire netting at the top of the cage large enough to admit a nut, and the squirrel will soon learn to climb up and take food from your hand. After cutting the hole, bend back the ends of the wires, so as to leave no sharp edges. Give the squirrel a little milk occasionally. You can put it in a dish like a canary's bathing-cup, which is low enough to slide out and in with the drawer. If you are ingenious, you can make a neat and comfortable cage at a very trifling expense.

VICTOR L.--The first of the historical sketches entitled "Old Times in the Colonies" is in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 35.

E. M. B.--Your "first attempt" is correct and very pretty, but unfortunately the same solution appeared in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 22, therefore we can not use it.

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