in the lights.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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PRIZE COMPETITIONS, &C.

X Y Z, SWALLOW.--[The names of the winners of the Silver Medals will be
printed in the February Number.--ED.]

LITERATURE.

A LOVER OF POETRY would like to know where the following line occurs,
and by whom it was written:--

"The league long roller thund'ring on the reef."

RAGS AND TATTERS wishes to know where the following lines are taken
from, and who is the author:--

"Till the day break and shadows flee away
In that far future dawn that knows not death."

ETHEL writes, in answer to LITTLE MAID OF ARCADIE, that the quotation--

"Evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart"--

is from a poem by Thomas Hood, entitled "The Lady's Dream." Answers also
received from several other readers.

WORK.

NELLY asks if any one could tell her how to make a pretty and simple
lace collar.

COOKERY.

RUBY AND A STRAWBERRY are informed that full directions for making
toffee appear on page 335 of this number.

GENERAL.

PANSY and M. E. would be glad if any one would tell her how to press
flowers, as those she has done have gone brown.

GUMMY would be very pleased if any one could give him a few hints on
satin-painting; has the satin to be prepared before it can be painted
on? if so, how?

VERUS would like to know of a very simple way of making an Aeolian harp,
if any one could tell her.--[The method was described in the May, 1882,
number of LITTLE FOLKS, Vol. XV., p. 319.--ED.]

THE SHAMROCK OF FREILING would be glad to know if any of the readers of
LITTLE FOLKS could tell them how to bleach grass for making Markart
bouquets.

DAFFODIL asks if any one will tell her how to paint on tiles with
water-colours.

NATURAL HISTORY.

EDITH would like to know what is the best food for rabbits, and how
often they ought to be fed. [They should be fed twice a day, every time
clearing away everything and giving quite fresh food. The staple diet
must be what is called "dry food," varied, such as dry crust of bread,
bread soaked in milk and squeezed dry, barley meal mixed with a very
little hot w