ng as
little folks are, their expressions of delight in their "little paper"
are unqualified.

Our exchange department has developed a fact that is very gratifying,
and that is that boys and girls throughout the country are interested in
making collections of minerals, pressed flowers and ferns, ocean
curiosities, and other specimens of nature's beautiful and perfect
handiwork. It affords us much pleasure to bring them into communication
with each other for the exchange of these instructive objects, thus
cultivating in them a desire for useful information, which, as they grow
older, may develop, in many instances, in ways which will lead to a
life-long benefit to themselves and others.

It has also afforded us the greatest satisfaction to answer the numerous
and varied questions of our inquisitive little readers; and except in
instances where the answer, were it given correctly, would occupy too
much space in our columns, or be too scientific for the comprehension of
the youthful querist, we have left but two or three questions to be
noticed.

We thank all of our readers most sincerely for the hearty expressions of
approval and delight which we have received; and we promise them that
the new volume of Young People shall continue to bring them weekly an
entertaining and instructive variety of stories and papers by the most
popular writers, good puzzles of all kinds, directions for making
various articles useful to boys and girls, and a very full and
interesting Post-office Box. We are confident that before the end of the
second volume we shall make friends with thousands of little people
whose handwriting is still unknown to us.

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DORSET, CANADA.

I am fourteen years old, and I live in the northern part of
Canada. My sister takes YOUNG PEOPLE. I liked the story of "The
Moral Pirates" very much. Our nearest neighbor is about six miles
away. There are lots of lakes here in which are a great many
speckled and salmon trout, and there are troops of red deer in the
woods. I have killed thirteen myself. We have two hounds which run
the deer in the lakes, and we have birch-bark canoes in which we
row. There is a sporting club comes here every year from New York
and Toronto.

ERASTUS W. L.

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I am seven years old. I live North, among the rocks and mountains
and lakes of Canada. I