never went to school, except once for five
weeks, but I can read in the Fourth Reader. I have a pet cat and a
chicken, and papa says he will catch me a fawn. I love YOUNG
PEOPLE very much.

NETTIE L.

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My sister Nettie and I can crochet, and we would be very much
obliged if Gracie Meads would send us the pattern she wrote about
in her letter. We would send her some flower seeds in return.

ADDIE LOCKMAN,
Dorset P. O., Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.

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MARENGO, IOWA.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, but I like best of all the
Post-office Box, and all the pretty things. I am going to make a
Manes life-boat, and a cucuius.

My sister has two white mice and a brown one, and I have a
canary-bird. One of our white mice was sick, but is getting
better.

Can any one tell me a good way to make a scrap-book?

I am beginning a collection of stamps. I have only eight different
kinds, but will soon have more. I am also collecting birds' eggs
and nests. I would like to know what bird lays a white egg
speckled with brown.

JESSIE LEE R.

There are several varieties of birds that lay white eggs speckled with
brown. The king-bird's egg has brown blotches on one end, and is
speckled all over; the wood-peewit lays a small white egg speckled with
brown, the spots forming a ring around one end; the egg of the
meadow-lark is long and white, with brown spots on the large end;
swallows' eggs are white, covered with brown spots; and other common
varieties of birds lay eggs of a similar appearance.

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CLAREMONT, MINNESOTA.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it was published, and I like
it very much. I enjoy reading the letters from all the children in
the Post-office Box. I am thirteen years old.

There is nothing much to do here except go to school and play. My
father keeps a store, and during the summer I worked for him.
School began on the 4th of October. I have ten chickens, and am
building a coop for them; and I have a very large cat named Buff.
I am saving money now to buy a cornet.

Will you tell me whether the stamps the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE
are collecting are used or new? I have quite a number of used
ones.

GEORGE H. H.

The stamps in