I have asked my papa to write for me and tell you how much even a blind boy may enjoy YOUNG PEOPLE. Mamma, papa, and Arthur read me the stories over and over again. I should like to know the Moral Pirates, but papa says my brother is one, and that ought to be enough.
I am almost seven. I used to run all about, chase the b.u.t.terflies and everything else that came in my way. But last year I was awful sick, and though I run now as well as I can, my little brother can run so much faster. I can see the light of the fire in papa"s fire-place, and the sunlight coming in at the windows, but the things I used to see are so dark, and I can only feel. I have not found a word of fault because I can not do like other boys.
EVERETT C. B.
TROY, TENNESSEE.
My brother Clarence takes YOUNG PEOPLE. I enjoy it almost as much as he does, and he says he couldn"t do without it.
I have a doll with great blue eyes and light hair. Her name is Dora. She is thirty inches high. Mamma dressed her in my own lemon-colored lawn and blue sash. When papa gave Dora to me I stood her by the side of my little sister Hallie, fourteen months old, and they were the same height.
My home is near Reelfoot Lake, which is about twenty miles long and seven wide. Papa says it was sunk there about 1811.
There are several mocking-birds tame enough to build in our yard and raise young birds. The old ones sing all night when it is moonlight. I am seven years old, and began school in September.
PEARL H.
PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA.
I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since No. 11, and I think it is a splendid paper.
I have only one pet--a black cat named Nig. He is very cunning. He will sit up as well as any squirrel. He never mews unless he wants a drink, or to run out-of-doors. He tries hard to turn the door k.n.o.b himself, but has never succeeded.
MAMIE B.
I have postage stamps I would like to exchange with the correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE, if they will send me a list of the stamps they would like, and of those they have to exchange.
ETTIE A. HOUSTON, 9 West Nineteenth Street, New York City.
My papa has taken HARPER"S WEEKLY for twenty years, and I take YOUNG PEOPLE. I like "Old Times in the Colonies" and "The Story of the American Navy" the best. I have a collection of about one hundred and fifty stamps, and would like to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
CURTIS BISHOP, P. O. Box 1093, New London, Connecticut.
I have just begun to take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much. I think "The Moral Pirates" ended splendidly.
If any boy would like to exchange postage stamps with me, I would be much obliged if he would send me a list of his stamps, and I will send one of mine in return.
C. F. MOSES, Care of J. J. Cohen & Sons, Augusta, Georgia.
I have about two thousand foreign stamps, comprising about fifty varieties, that I would like to exchange with the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE, especially beginners, for I have not many rare varieties.
I have also a number of one, two, three, six, ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty-four, and thirty cent War Department stamps to exchange.
GEORGE M. FINCKEL, P. O. Box 368, Washington, D. C.
I have some little stone cells, built and occupied by worms. I found them in a brook in Mount Alto Park, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The worms were alive when I took them from the brook, and perhaps if I had kept them in water they would have developed into something different.
If George M. Finckel, or any other readers of YOUNG PEOPLE, would like a few specimens of these worm cells in exchange for stamps, I could supply them. My list of stamps is not large, as I am only beginning a collection. I have no Chinese or West India stamps, and would be glad to exchange for them any of the following, which are all the duplicates I have: One zwei groschen Nord-deutscher post: one eighty centime, Empire Francais; one sixpence; two threepence; two two-hundred mils. Correos de Esco. de Espana.
LIDIE B. KEITH, Waynesborough, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
I have about four hundred and twenty-five different kinds of postage stamps, and would like to exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I also have a lot of rare postmarks, which I should like to exchange for stamps. I particularly wish the ninety Interior, and the seven, twenty-four, thirty, and ninety of either the War or Treasury Department; or any foreign stamps. I have Persian, Turkish, Canadian, German, English, Swedish, and Interior Department stamps for exchange.
A. H. VERRILL, P. O. Box 824, New Haven, Connecticut.
I would like to exchange with the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE some rare foreign stamps for other foreign stamps and United States official issues of 1851, "55, "56, "57, "61, "65, "69, "74, "75, and "76.
PAUL GOLDSMITH, Hohokus, Bergen County, New Jersey.
I am making a collection of minerals, and I would gladly exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
CARRIE THORNER, 185 Hurn Street, Toledo, Ohio.
J. B.--Honey-bees were unknown in America until they were brought here by early European settlers. On this account the honey-bee is called white man"s fly by the Indians.
W. A.--From your description your "queer animal" appears to belong to the family of caddis-worms. If he is a member of this family, he is a scavenger, and will feed himself on the bits of decayed matter in the water. After a while he will cling to some weed near the surface, and spin a chrysalis, from which the caddisfly will break forth.
"CAPT. FRANK."--The directions you require are in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 26.
G. T. T.--Experience has shown that catamarans with two masts are not as serviceable as those with one.