FRED H. LOWE, Salem, Dent County, Missouri.

I am a constant reader of your splendid paper. I enjoy "The Moral Pirates" very much.

I brought two mud-turtles from the country this summer. One is so tame it will eat from my hand. I feed them on worms, meat, and flies.

I have a small collection of postmarks, and I should like to exchange with any boy reader of YOUNG PEOPLE in the West.

A. J. DOHRMAN, 557 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York.

I wish the correspondent who sent me a piece of colored marble from Tennessee would kindly write again, as I can not make out the name.

I shall be glad to exchange sh.e.l.ls or minerals with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

LAURA BINGHAM, Lansing, Michigan.

I have a collection of birds" eggs, and a collection of stuffed birds which I stuffed myself.

I would like to exchange eggs with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

HARRY B. GREENE, 8 Myrtle Street, Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts.

I am collecting postmarks and stamps, and I shall have enough before long to exchange with the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would like to exchange a French stamp for a Danish one now.

JOSEPH COMBS, Care of W. S. Combs, Freehold, New Jersey.

I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. I am nine years old.

ANNA STUART, Rye, Westchester County, New York.

I am making a collection of postmarks, and would like to exchange.

I have an aquarium with gold-fish, minnows, tadpoles, eels, frogs, and turtles, and would like to know how to feed them.

JOHN FISHER, 3 Potts Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Very full directions for the feeding of these creatures have been given in different numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

I should like to exchange foreign postage stamps with any boy.

BENJAMIN H. WHITTAKER, 120-1/2 Eleventh Street, Brooklyn, New York.

I am collecting postage stamps, and would be glad to exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have also some postmarks.

THOMAS HOGAN, P. O. Box 243, Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts.

I and my cousin George are collecting stamps. We have a lot of War Department stamps which we would like to exchange in sets, or singly, for those of any other department. We have one, two, three, six, twelve, and fifteen cent stamps.

WILLIAM WINSLOW, 74 De Soto Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.

I am beginning a collection of sh.e.l.ls, minerals, birds" eggs and nests, and I would like to exchange with any correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. As I have just begun to collect, I have not very many things yet.

MARIGO S. GUNARI, Care of P. Gunari, New Roch.e.l.le, New York.

I would like to exchange Indian arrow-heads, and specimens of lead and spar, for sh.e.l.ls, ocean curiosities, and pressed flowers.

EMMA LEE, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Illinois.

EARNEST READER.--The small round holes in the clam sh.e.l.ls are probably the work of the oyster drill, a tiny sea creature which does much mischief to all kinds of sh.e.l.l-fish.

ALFRED B. C.--Directions for making a paper balloon were given in Our Post-office Box No. 43.

B. H. W.--The numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE you require will be forwarded to you, postage paid, by the publishers, on the receipt of one dollar and eight cents.

FORD M. G.--The genuine Bologna sausage is manufactured in the city of Bologna, in Northern Italy. Many imitations of the imported article are sold in the United States under the same name.

DAISY VIOLET.--The first volume of HARPER"S YOUNG PEOPLE will close with No. 52, which will be published on October 26, 1880.

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