other climbed a tall tree in the woods
yesterday, and brought down four young crows, which he killed, and
hung in the corn field to scare away the big crows.

WALTER C. R.

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The following letter will be welcome to the many inquirers for this
little flower girl of the Pacific coast:

When my letter was published in YOUNG PEOPLE, I was away from
home, and I have only just now seen it in print. I am sorry the
prettiest flowers of the valley are gone, but I have a few pressed
that I will send to each address, and I will ask some of my
friends to send me some of the mountain flowers.

GENEVIEVE HARVEY,
Galt, Sacramento County, California.

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My father has a nice cabinet of minerals, corals, shells, Indian
relics, and other things. I would like to exchange spar of
different colors, iron ore, and other minerals, with some little
girls, for pressed flowers and shells. I have a great many
flowers, and this fall, when the seed gets ripe, I would like to
exchange flower seeds.

There is an abundance of lovely ferns here. Will you please tell
me the best way to press ferns and flowers?

EDITH LOWRY,
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Illinois.

Ferns and flowers should be laid carefully between two sheets of clean
paper, the leaves artistically arranged in graceful shape, and placed
under heavy pressure until they are dry. If the ferns are to be used for
decoration, a warm iron, not too hot, must be passed over them, always
putting clean paper between them and the iron, otherwise the heat of the
room will curl them as soon as they are placed upon the wall. It is
better not to iron them until they are dry, as the suddenly applied heat
is liable to change the color of fresh ferns, causing them to look dull
and faded. The sugar-maple leaf you send is well pressed, and
beautifully varnished. What kind of varnish did you use? No doubt some
little girls who are preserving leaves would like to know.

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I would like to exchange postage stamps of foreign countries with
some other boys who are readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.

SIDNEY ST. W.,
326 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York city.

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MAY 31, 1880.

I am making a collection of birds' eggs, and as soon as I