Certificate must be given that they are _original_; and the printed
conditions must be strictly observed. The age of _every_ Competitor
must also be attested.--All work to be carefully marked with the
Competitor's name, age, and full address, and to be sent,
accompanied by the Certificate, carefully packed and _carriage
paid_, addressed to "The Editor of LITTLE FOLKS, La Belle Sauvage
Yard, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C."--All the Competitions will
_finally close_ on SATURDAY, THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1884.

The whole of the work of every kind in the SEVEN COMPETITIONS will be
distributed among the little inmates of the principal CHILDREN'S
HOSPITALS and KINDRED INSTITUTIONS throughout the United Kingdom.

The foregoing are in addition to the regular "Picture Page" and Puzzle
Competitions, &c. (see pages 61 and 64).

[Illustration: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

[_The Editor requests that all inquiries and replies intended for
insertion in LITTLE FOLKS should have the words "Questions and Answers"
written on the left-hand top corners of the envelopes containing them.
Only those which the Editor considers suitable and of general interest
to his readers will be printed._]

PRIZE COMPETITIONS, &c.

A FOREIGN COMPETITOR.--[An announcement of a Prize Puzzle Competition,
in addition to a "Picture Page Wanting Words" Competition, in both of
which Extra Prizes will be given, and much longer time than usual
allowed for sending in Answers, will appear in the September number of
LITTLE FOLKS. These two Competitions have been arranged, in response to
repeated requests, in order that Competitors residing on the Continent,
and in the United States, Canada, &c., (in addition to those living in
Great Britain), may take part in them in much greater numbers than they
are generally able to do.--ED.]

LITERATURE.

A CROCODILE writes in answer to MARY HODGE, that the line--

"When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war,"

was written by Nathaniel Lee, and is to be found in his tragedy of
_Alexander the Great_, act iv., scene 2. Answers also received from
KITT, THISTLE, CHLOE, A YOUNG FIDDLER, and POP-A-TOP.

FLURUMPUS FLUMP asks in what poem

"A boy's will is the wind's will"

is to be found, and what is the first verse.

COOKERY.

ARIEL writes, in reply to PRINCESS IDA, that the way to make jumbles is
to rasp on some good sugar the rinds of two lemo