ia, sent me a piece of peacock coal, and
wished St. Croix carnelians in exchange. Unfortunately I have lost
her name and address, and I wish to ask her to kindly send it to
me again.

CARRIE E. SILLIMAN,
Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin.

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WEST NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Will some correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE please give me directions
for pressing flowers and different kinds of sea-weed?

DAISY F.

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I have a little kitten named Tommy Milo. Sometimes he comes into
our chamber and lies at the foot of the bed till one or two
o'clock in the morning, and then crawls up to the head to be
petted. Sometimes he plagues us so that we have to put him out of
the room.

I can knit and crochet. I crocheted a collar of feathered-edge
braid, and it is very pretty. I would like very much a pattern for
knitting edging, if Gracie Meads or any one will send it to me.

ELIZA F., P. O. Box 162,
West Newton, Massachusetts.

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BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA.

I send you a pencil sketch of a magnolia blossom. I drew it
myself. I draw a good deal for my own amusement, although I have
had no instruction. The diameter of this blossom is about nine
inches when it is fully open. This month is the time for the
falling of the cones. They contain the seeds, which are covered
with a bright red pulpy substance, and are suspended from the cone
by a white silken thread about half an inch long. They are very
pretty. Our magnolia-tree is very large. The circumference is
about fifteen feet.

Several days ago I saw a wild vine that resembles the sweet-potato
vine, and the blossom is just the same. We have what I think is
the wild onion growing here. It grows all around in the fields.

I think HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is a splendid paper.

A. L. H.

Many thanks for your pretty drawing. We regret we have no room to give
it in the Post-office Box.

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WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT.

I don't know but the little folks are tired of hearing about pets,
but I want to tell them how my kitty jumped on the piano, and ran
over the keys from one end of them to the other, and the tune she
played frightened her so that she scampered away with