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We have ourselves received large numbers of correct answers to puzzles,
often accompanied by the pretty appeal, "Do, please, print my name in
the list of those sending correct answers," and neither initials, name,
nor even address attached upon which we could base an acknowledgment.
When the answers were published, and those little folks found their
solutions were correct, and yet their names didn't appear, no doubt they
thought themselves very badly treated; but the fault was not ours.

Now when you direct a letter for purposes of exchange, copy the whole
address given in Our Post-office Box very carefully and clearly. And
give your own address in full, very plainly written, or else, even
should your letter reach its destination, you probably will not receive
an answer.

Learn to bestow care and attention upon little things now while you are
young, and as you grow older you will find it easier to be careful in
things of greater importance, and thereby save yourself and others from
much unnecessary trouble.

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

It would be curious to know how many of the child-correspondents
of YOUNG PEOPLE are really getting good natural history
collections. I can not imagine a greater help in educating a
child. My little girl, known among them as "Wee Tot," is quite
absorbed in learning everything she can about shells, minerals,
birds, flowers, and other natural objects, and nearly every mail
brings or takes some new variety.

ONE OF THE MOTHERS.

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WEST BRIGHTON, STATEN ISLAND.

Although I am not one of your youngest readers, I wish to tell you
that YOUNG PEOPLE is the best paper I ever saw for little folks,
and I very much wish there was one as good in my own country,
which is France.

My pet is a little chicken hatched by steam, which I bought at
Coney Island, at a show where you can see the whole process of
hatching. The eggs are kept at a certain temperature for
twenty-one days, the length of time a hen would sit on them, and
then the little chickens begin to knock on their shells for
admittance into the wide world. In half an hour they are fairly
out, and ready to eat some yolk of an egg crumbled in little bits,
which is given them for the first few days of their life.

I bought one when it was a day old