nk it is very nice to
ride in it.

I would be very much obliged if Harry H. M., of Windsor,
Connecticut, or some other correspondent, would send me a pressed
trailing arbutus, as I never saw any of that flower. I will
exchange some of our pressed flowers for it.

CARRIE HARDING,
Freeport, Illinois.

I am twelve years old, but people think I am older, because I am
so tall. We have a great many pets. We have a white horse, a black
and white coach dog, a Maltese cat, and two kittens; and mamma has
just raised a brood of four canaries, but the cat caught one of
them.

My sister and I tried Nellie H.'s recipe for candy.

I would like to exchange pressed flowers with Genevieve of
California. I have already pressed a few.

HATTIE D. CONDON,
P. O. Box 98, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

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E. G. KOCH.--The best thing for you to do is to go to Prospect Park
Lake, Brooklyn, any pleasant Saturday afternoon, where you can witness
the regatta, and learn full particulars concerning the yacht club.

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W. B. A. S.--The loon is found in all the Northern States. It is a very
awkward bird on land, but a graceful and rapid swimmer. It is a
remarkable diver, and it is thought that no other feathered creature can
dive so far beneath the surface or remain so long a time under water. A
specimen was once found attached to the hook of a fisherman's set line
in Seneca Lake, it having dived nearly one hundred feet to reach the
bait. It feeds on lizards, fish, frogs, all kinds of aquatic insects,
and the roots of fresh-water plants, usually swallowing its food under
water. It is a very large bird, about three feet in length, and spreads
its wings fully five feet. It builds its nest in marshes, near water, of
rushes and grass, which it twists together in a huge heap on the ground,
usually among tall reeds. The eggs, usually three in number, are a
little over three inches long, and in color of a dull greenish ochre,
with indistinct spots of dark umber, most numerous toward the broad end.
During the winter this bird lives near the sea-shore, especially in the
salt-marshes on the Long Island coast, and along the shores of the
Chesapeake; but in the summer it goes as far north as Maine, and breeds
there in great quantities.

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EDITH H.--The peculiar spots