the ocean with me. It
is pure white. I have made a house for it to live in during the
summer. I visited Paris, and saw the last Exposition. It was not
as large as ours, but it was very fine. I have a very nice
collection of stamps and coins. My oldest coin, a Moorish one, is
dated 1270. I have another dated 1275. Both the coins were given
to me by Captain Boyton. Is it true that he was killed? I would
like to know.

CHARLES L. S.

Captain Boyton is not dead, but is in good health, and on the occasion
of a recent boat-race at Washington was floating about in his famous
life-saving costume.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I have copied all the recipes, and we have a nice cook that lets
me try them, and helps me, too. She makes the crust for me, and I
make the inside for an awful good lemon pie. Here is the recipe,
and I wish Puss Hunter and the girls would try it and say what
they think of it. Take one tea-cup of white sugar; one
table-spoonful of butter; one egg; one large lemon; one tea-cup of
boiling water; one table-spoonful of corn starch. Mix the butter
and sugar in a bowl; then put the boiling water over the fire, and
stir the corn starch (which you must first wet in a little cold
water) into it till it thickens. Now pour it over the butter and
sugar, and set it away to cool. When it is cold, add the juice and
grated peel of the lemon (carefully removing the seeds) and the
beaten egg. Bake it without any top crust. Three times all this
makes two nice pies for big people, our cook says.

YOUNG PEOPLE is--oh, too good for anything. When I grow older, I
am going to take a dozen copies for poor little boys and girls
whose papa and mamma can not take it for them, as mine do for me.

HELEN.

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U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.

This is a lovely place to live in. Every morning and afternoon the
band plays in the Naval Academy grounds, and almost every
afternoon we play croquet until the band stops. The music always
begins with "The Star-spangled Banner," and ends with "Hail,
Columbia."

LIZZIE C. F.

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DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

I thank you, dear contributors, for the recipes you have already
sent me, and I would like