Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 Part 7

I am collecting postage stamps, and would be glad to exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I also have a collection of bugs.

VERNON L. KELLOGG, Emporia, Kansas.

I have made the acquaintance of several boys who read YOUNG PEOPLE, through the Post-office Box, as I am collecting postage stamps. If others who have not yet written are doing the same, I would like to exchange with them. I wrote to Sidney St. W., but he has not yet answered me. I am eleven years old. My younger brother, Charlie, is collecting postmarks, and has already eleven hundred and seventy-five. He would like to exchange with any of the boys.

LEWIS S. MUDGE, Princeton, New Jersey.

We have YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it very much. I would like to tell some of the boys and girls who live far away something about my home and pleasures. The name of my home is Baywood Lodge. It is within a stone's-throw of a beautiful sheet of water known as Hempstead Bay. We sail, row, swim, and fish, and we have horses, and enjoy riding horseback too.

There is a camp very near us, in the woods. There are about thirty people, and they have five tents, and their horses.

I would like to exchange foreign postage stamps with any boys who read YOUNG PEOPLE.

ARTHUR LAWRENCE VALK, Baywood Lodge, Port Was.h.i.+ngton, Long Island.

I am making a collection of postage stamps, and I would like to exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE in Canada. I will exchange United States stamps for Canadian stamps.

J. M. WOLFE, P. O. Box 423, Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania.

H. P. C.--The quail builds its nest on the ground, among bushes or tall gra.s.s. The nesting-time is early in June, and when you find ten or more little white eggs, you may be sure the bird has commenced setting. The eggs are about the size of a pigeon's egg, and pointed at one end like a boy's wooden top. When the little birds are hatched they are as strong as little chickens, and the mother bird takes them off to ramble about the thicket in the same way as a hen leads her brood. The quail is a plump grayish-brown bird, speckled with black and white. Its peculiar whistle may be heard anywhere in the country all the long summer day.

Children often imitate the sound, and imagine that the quail is always screaming "more wet"; and in truth the quail's note does resemble those words, with a short, quick accent on the last sound, as if the bird was constantly entreating nature for a refres.h.i.+ng summer shower.

A. S. DAGGETT.--You do not need cards to play the geographical game. If you wish, you can get blank cards, and write them yourself; but the game is made more lively and instructive by leaving the answers to the geographical knowledge and quick memory of the players.

EDITH H. THOMAS.--Write directly to the correspondent you wish to exchange with.

ANNA M. R.--Many thanks for your description of the curious things exhibited at the Nashville Centennial. We are sorry it is too long to print.

WAT H. T. M.--We acknowledge with thanks the account you send us of Was.h.i.+ngton's birth-place, near which historical locality you live.

Favors are acknowledged from Charles S. R., Rena and Frank Stearns, Bessie Clark, Romeo and Juliet, W. W. Eaton, Charles L. B., Thomas H.

Van T., Katrina, Charlie D., Leila Mackay, Gracie D. Ely, Charley J.

Kennedy, Louis L. G., Mary W. W., V. Fannie L., Susie Mulholland, John B. Maxwell, Asa M. Steele, Arthur McKeen, Lulu E., Charles C. M., Belle Matteson, Annie H. R., John Leeper, Carrie B. Thompson, Albert Smith, Eddie M., Freddie Hyers, Mary E. P., Alice Green, Carrie E. Riley, Hallie S. Morgan, Louie Van A., Thad. B. Tobey.

Correct answers to puzzles are received from Alice Grady, "North Star,"

Benny W. L., Ermie Garden, Allie Mason, Eddie A. Leet, Ernest G. Young, Fred Haswell, Marguerite Bucknall, Willard H. Francis, Willie and Henry Western, Fred J. Purdy, Leon C. Bogart, Hugh Downing, Alson A. G., Clara L. Kellogg, Sarah B., Willie T. B., Alice Williams, Willie C., "Dominus," Bessie Guyton, T. L. Drew, Mary L. McVean, George L. Osgood, W. V. Fowler, K. R., Albert and Laura Ellard, Alfy G. Dale, Rebecca Hedges.

PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

ENIGMA.

One-third of sun, one-fourth of none, One-fifth of weary, one-sixth of dreary, One-third of oak, one-fifth of broke, One-fourth of kite, if read aright, And placed in line correct and true, Will give a city's name to you.

A. B.

No. 2.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

A beast. A chain of mountains in Asia. An eatable. To observe. Something used in ancient warfare. Answer--Two wild beasts.

H. F. P.

No. 3.

NUMERICAL CHARADE.

I am a large island lying far away toward the south pole, and am composed of 14 letters.

My 9, 6, 4, 13, 3 is not small.

My 10, 8, 12, 7 is food for beasts.

My 1, 14, 11, 5 is a journey.

My 10, 2, 13 is a fruit.

KATIE.

No. 4.