et robin that I
was very fond of.

I tried Nellie H.'s recipe for making sugar-candy, and it was very
nice. Here is a recipe of my own for her to try: One pound of
white sugar; six table-spoonfuls of cream; one of vinegar; one of
corn starch; one of melted butter; the white of one egg. Boil
until it waxes when it is cold. It should boil about one hour.

I would like to exchange pressed flowers, both cultivated and
wild, with any little girl living in the Southern and far Western
United States.

ANNIE L. WOODS,
Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York.

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I would be very glad to gather birds' eggs to exchange with I.
Quackenboss and Samuel P. Higgins, if I knew how to preserve them
and send them by mail. Can some one tell me, please? I live where
there is much of the long gray moss so common in the South, and if
any one would like to have some, I would be glad to exchange it
for shells, birds' eggs, pretty minerals, or anything of the kind.
There are many pretty flowers that grow wild here. There are
blue-bonnets, _Phlox drummondi_, sweet-williams, lantana,
larkspur, verbena, and fox-glove; but they have nearly all
finished blooming for this year. I would like to know how to press
some of them.

LULA BARLOW,
Refugio, Refugio County, Texas.

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I am collecting postage stamps, and would like to exchange with
some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have nine hundred and
seventy-six different kinds.

LEON M. FOBES,
No. 22 Cushman Street, Portland, Maine.

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I am thirteen years old, and I live on the right bank of the
Pecatonica River. If C. B. F. will look in a good encyclopedia, he
will find out a good deal about ants. I have a dog and a cat, and
a great many pigeons and chickens. I was out with my mamma the
other day, and we found ferns three feet high.

I have a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to exchange
with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

CHARLES J. BURCHARD,
Freeport, Illinois.

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We have some of the handsomest white roses here that I ever saw.
When they first open, they are tinted cream-color. I live on the
Pecatonica River, and we have a boat. I thi