not eat bits of clam, try them with tiny
mouthfuls of fish. Be careful to allow no uneaten food to remain in the
water. Experience, which you will quickly gain, will insure you success.

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I have a great many German, French, Austrian, and English postage
stamps, and would like to exchange with any who are beginning a
collection. I can get all kinds of stamps.

I am a native of England. I have been two years in America, and I
think it is a very nice country.

FRANK B. WESTWOOD,
P. O. Box 4574, New York City.

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I am nearly twelve years old, and I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much.

I am making a collection of postage stamps, and would like to
exchange with any other boy.

I can not get many kinds of stamps in this out-of-the-way place.

HORACE RANDOLPH,
Sherman, Grayson County, Texas.

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I come from the far South, where I spend the winter in New
Orleans. I am collecting postage stamps, and would like to
exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

EDWARD L. HUNT,
Barrytown, Dutchess County, New York.

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I take HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, and think it is a splendid paper for
boys and girls.

I have a collection of postage stamps, and would like to exchange
with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

HENRY A. BLAKESLEY,
54 West Eighth Street, Topeka, Kansas.

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I think YOUNG PEOPLE is the best paper that I ever read, and I
think the Post-office Box is one of the nicest things in it.

I am collecting relics and minerals, and would like to exchange
petrified wood for relics. I will also exchange a
chimney-swallow's egg for the egg of any bird except a robin, blue
jay, or chipping sparrow.

W. A. WEBSTER,
394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

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I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers of
YOUNG PEOPLE. Correspondents will please state what kind of eggs
they have to exchange, and what they would like in return.

GUSSIE HARTMAN,
65 Cass Street, Chicago, Illinois.

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I would like to exchange postmarks for stamps with any of the
readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.