two feet long, and
his legs are very nearly the same length, and when he stands up
straight he is about five feet high. He is not fully fledged yet.
His body is now about as large as that of a goose.

I like to write. I am not a very good writer, but I think I can be
a better one if I write a great deal. I am the lame boy whose
letters you printed in the Post-office Box last winter.

ELMER R. BLANCHARD.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Since my request for exchanges was published in YOUNG PEOPLE I
have received a great many letters from all parts of the United
States, and I would like to inform the correspondents that I will
answer all of them in due time. Now I am very busy. I am getting a
new book and fixing it up, my school has commenced, and I am
taking music lessons on the piano. I can play familiar tunes like
the "Racquet Polka," "Fatinitza," "Pinafore," and others. I am
also taking German lessons.

WILLIE H. SCHERZER.

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Clarence L. can buy silk-worms, and obtain all information in
regard to them, at the southwest corner of Juniper and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or at the Educational
Department of the Permanent Exhibition, in the same city.

PAUL DE M.

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ASHLAND, KENTUCKY.

I have seen a real live white crow. It belongs to a gentleman
living on Big Sandy River. The white crow was seen by several
persons, who tried to shoot it. At last the gentleman who now owns
it shot it in the wing. It was not much hurt, and soon got well.
Its owner was offered three hundred dollars for it, but he would
not sell it. A good many people go to see it.

WILLIE S. B.

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RADNOR, OHIO.

I wish some correspondent would tell me how to feather arrows. I
have made a bow and some nice arrows, but I can not feather them.

I am making a collection of old coins. Are any other
correspondents doing the same?

B. I.

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NEW YORK CITY.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I am ten years old. I have no pets
except a canary named David. I would like to know what to feed him
with besides sugar and seed, for I think he must be tired of
e