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[PINAFORE RHYMES.—(Continued.)]
Bow! wow! wow! You'd better run;
I'm just the dog to spoil your fun;
I'll tear your dresses, and bite your heels,
Till every one of you shrieks and squeals.
So, there! I've scared them well, I must say;
But I'm very glad that they ran away;
It wouldn't have been such jolly fun,
If they had made me turn tail and run.
Six chimney-sweeps, each black as a crow,
Had a big fight with a man of snow.
They beat him to pieces because he was white,
And had a triumphant feast that night.
Their dishes were blackbirds and crows, 'tis said,
Chimney-soot pudding and charcoal bread.
And they swallowed a dozen bottles of ink,
Being very choice in their meat and drink.
Here, you little monkey, you,
I want to see you play with Lu;
She's such a pretty little miss,
Shake hands with her, and give a kiss.
Won't!
Why not, when Lulu wants to play,
And asks in such a pretty way?
Can't!
Why not, you little sauce-box, say?
Sha'n't!
Here's a dainty little tree,
With its spreading leaves so free;
It's so pretty, that I will
Keep it on my window-sill.
Raton, New Mexico.
My brother and sisters and myself live at Chicorica Park. It is a very pretty place, situated in the Raton Mountains. We have had parties of as many as three hundred Indians hunting in our cañon at once, but it is a year and a half now since we have seen any. We have a good many deer here. Seven have been killed since Christmas, but one was carried off by a mountain lion.
We like Harper's Young People very much, especially the Jimmy Brown stories, and "Toby Tyler." We are all English children, and have never lived anywhere in America except in New Mexico. Our pets are dogs and cats and a colt. We like the colt best of all.
We have had some very heavy snow-storms, and the cañon has been impassable several times this winter, so we have not received Young People very regularly. I am twelve years old.
G. Kercheval M.
Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania.
I like the life of Lafayette which was published in Young People so much! I have the lives of generals in my history, but the way they are written in Young People is so much more interesting! I wish the paper was published twice a week, it seems so long to wait to hear how Toby Tyler gets along. On Wednesday morning it is "Hallo! has Young People come?" all over our house. Mamma says it is a great blessing. We think the little girl with her first muff in the picture in No. 68 is so sweet and chubby and baby-like, that if she was alive we should just love her to death.
I have a dog named Major, who sits up on his hind-legs and hangs down his fore-paws pitifully, as if they were broken, and some people think they really are; but Major only does it to beg for candy. He has many friends, and sometimes they bring him sticks of candy all the way from Philadelphia.
It has been so cold here this winter that some of our sparrows fell to the ground half frozen. We brought them into the house, and when they got warm we opened the window and let them fly away.
Georgy H.
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
I am six years old. I began to take Young People on the first of January, and I like it ever so much. I learned the little poem in No. 66 about the strawberry vines, and how the snowy blanket covered their saucy little heads. I speak it for grandma, and she says it is beautiful.
Christmas papa gave me a beautiful little stove, all nickel-plated. I bake pies and cake and other nice things for my little friends and myself to eat.
My uncle brought me a doll from New York city, and my other uncle gave me a little trunk to put her clothes in.
Ethel B.
Denison, Iowa.
I wish Young People came every day instead of once a week. I was so sorry when "Mildred's Bargain" was finished! but I like the other stories ever so much, especially "Toby Tyler." I read all the letters in the Post-office Box, and wish I could see all the boys and girls who write them. The little girl away down in Texas who wrote about the first snow has no idea how much fun we Northern children have coasting on the snow crust, sometimes over drifts eight and ten feet deep.
Last Friday I spoke "Lily's Ball," the poem in No. 67 of Young People, at my school, and next week I am going to speak "My First Muff," in No. 68.
Mabel.
New York City.
I think Toby Tyler is a great boy. We used to have a monkey named Jack. Every night he would put a shawl over his head and go to sleep. Sometimes he would hold the kitten in his arms and try to put her to sleep. He would get on our pig's back, and hold on to his ears, and ride all around, and he would ride horseback to the village. When any one went out, he would watch to see if any candy were brought home, and if it was, he would stand on his hind-legs and put out his paw until the paper was opened. I am almost eight years old.
Willie K. T.
Houston, Texas, February 22, 1881.
I wish to notify correspondents that I have exchanged to the full extent of my collection, and I beg them not to write to me any more.
H. C. Yancey.
Forest Lake, Pennsylvania.
My papa promised me Young People as soon as I could read it myself. I tried very hard after that, and last November, on my seventh birthday, sure enough it came. I don't believe any little boy enjoys it more than I do. I must tell you of one thing it has done for me. I was always afraid to be left alone, especially after dark. After reading the story in No. 55 about the little girl who broke herself of being so timid, I went every night from garret to cellar all alone after dark, and now I am not afraid to go anywhere in the house, even if it is very dark.
I have a little brother named Harry. I love him very much. He likes the pictures in Young People as much as I do. I think Jimmy Brown is jolly.
Wrightie G.
San Antonio, Texas.
I have two mocking-birds for pets. They whistle so pretty! I am going to have a pretty flower garden this summer. Spring is here (February 16), and the peach-trees are budding, and everybody is making gardens.
I like all the stories in Young People. I always laugh so hard when mamma reads Jimmy Brown to me! I wish he would send another story.
May K.
February 24, 1881.
I have no more pure white coral left, but I have a piece with a little red in it which I will send to a boy who sent me a specimen of ore, if he will kindly send me his address again.
I would like to send "Wee Tot" a piece of red coral from the Red Sea, if she will send me some ocean curiosities and her address.
Sallie Kelley,
Kleine St., East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fred Glasier, of Adams, Massachusetts, regrets being unable to make a return for some favors he has received, as the addresses, although given, were so illegible that he could not decipher them. Addresses should always be written distinctly. The Post-office Box is often compelled to neglect exchanges which are pretty and suitable, because the address is as mysterious as the hieroglyphics on our Egyptian obelisk.
Last year my father gave me a Columbia bicycle. We have a bicycle club here, with about twenty members, of which I am one. Our suit is brown corduroy, with red stockings. The cap is like the suit.
I would like to exchange some of the first American pennies and halfpennies, for foreign coins.
Arthur C. Ketcham,
Care of William P. Ketcham. P. O. Box 10,
Yonkers, N. Y.
I will exchange bayberry-tallow, for peacock coal, or postage stamps from Cape of Good Hope or Barbadoes.
A. M. Forman,
116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera). This shrub, which is very aromatic, grows in great abundance all along the Atlantic coast. It is found in such quantities in some localities of Long Island that the gathering of the berries and the manufacture of tallow for candles amount to an extensive local industry.
I have taken Young People since the first copy. My brother has bound it with strings, and it makes a very pretty volume.
I have often answered correspondents, always receiving, in exchange for foreign stamps, articles of equal value.
I have nearly two thousand duplicates of foreign stamps, which I will exchange for other foreign stamps, or for stamps of United States departments. I will also exchange postmarks for anything interesting.
John Thomas,
3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Penn.
My mamma says she will make a pretty flower out of any little girl's hair, or her mamma's, in exchange for curious shells, minerals, or a genuine Indian bow and arrow. A bunch of hair from one to two feet long and as thick as a goose quill will make a pretty flower.
Adella P. Lippincott,
New Hope, Bucks County, Penn.
I have four Chilian stamps, which I would like to exchange for other South American stamps. I have made a man with a basket on his back from Wiggle 17, which I send.
Edward H. Palmer,
44 Schiffleutstaden, Strasburg, Germany.
Your Wiggle is excellent, and we are very sorry it arrived too late to be printed with others.
I have noticed in the exchanges there are many who want birds' eggs. It does not seem quite right to me, because if we take all the eggs, we destroy all the birds. I will exchange shells and pebbles from Lake Erie, for any curiosity except birds' eggs.
Jessie G. Smith,
327 West Fourth Street, Erie, Penn.
The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:
Postmarks and stamps of all kinds.
George Linscott,
Holton, Jackson County, Kansas.
Twenty-five postmarks, for five stamps from any country except Europe, Canada, and the United States.
F. S. and B. S.,
P. O. Box 582, Lansing, Mich.
Dried ferns from the highest peaks of the Alleghanies, for pieces of silk for a quilt.
Lucy Sharp, P. O. Box 73, Bridgeton, N. J.
Stamps.
Sammy Beans,
103 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.
Postmarks or stamps, for stamps.
Jerome G. Eddy, Lock Box 111, Geneva, N. Y.
A piece of Irish peat, for soil and seed from the far West or South, especially cotton seed, or for a piece of lava.
D. Allan Weber,
Searsport, Waldo County, Maine.
Stamps.
N. S. Schwarz,
105 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.
Postage stamps and postmarks, for stamps.
William M. Beaman,
U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Penn.
A Canadian coin, for five Montenegro stamps.
Charlie Hubbard,
30 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.
Shells, for Indian relics.
Aaron King,
80 Ellison Street, Paterson, N. J.
Texas moss, flints, insects, woods, pressed flowers, and other natural curiosities, for foreign postage stamps, woods, Indian arrow-heads, and all kinds of minerals.
J. S. and Willie G. Davis,
Care of J. T. Davis, P. O. Box 122,
Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.
Postmarks, for stamps, curiosities, or minerals. Ten postmarks, for one rare stamp; or twenty, for a good curiosity.
Charlie Nichols,
288 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, Conn.
Postage stamps, for stamps, minerals or coins.
Ralph L. Emerson,
P. O. Box 105, Brookline, Mass.
Postage stamps, for the same, or pressed wild flowers.
Fred Cheney,
41 Fort Avenue, Boston, Mass.
Foreign postage stamps.
Henry Payne,
Mankato, Minn.
Stamps, for coins.
A Subscriber of "Young People,"
First National Bank, Bay City, Mich.
A small piece of sulphate of iron, for foreign postage stamps.
Harry W. Townley,
Sayreville, N. J.
Stamps, for coins.
W. T. Crane,
124 Washington Street, Hoboken, N. J.
Stamps, for anything suitable for a museum.
D. G. Barnett,
406 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
German postage stamps, for other foreign stamps.
Arthur E. Campbell,
222 Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.
Five postmarks, for one foreign stamp.
Guy F. Barker,
St Albans, Franklin County, Vt.
Rare postmarks (Illinois especially) and postage stamps, for foreign and old issues of United States stamps.
Manning A. Logan,
812 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Three varieties of internal revenue stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or curiosities.
Edwin E. Slosson,
Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas.
United States and foreign postage stamps, for stamps from Hamburg, Mexico, and Japan.
Harry C. Brearley,
180 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Postage stamps, for specimens of gold, silver, copper, or tin ore.
Ally B. Halliday,
406 West Forty-third Street, New York City.
Minerals, fossils, shells, and Indian relics (a large collection of the latter), for minerals, shells, and seaweed. Only good specimens desired.
Ed Gohl, 7 South Third Street, Harrisburg, Penn.
Stones from Connecticut, Texas, and Mississippi, also cotton as it comes from the field, for foreign postage stamps.
James McKenna,
4 West Street, Bridgeport, Conn.
A Norwegian halfpenny, date 1867, two Cape of Good Hope stamps, and a flint an inch long, for Indian arrow-heads and petrified wood.
George E. Pringle, Hastings, Minn.
Shells from the Indian and Pacific oceans, for fossils of animals or plants.
Henry W. Hand,
Green Creek, Cape May County, N. J.
Foreign postage stamps, for Indian relics and curiosities.
Flavel S. Mines, Kirkwood Hotel,
Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Mo.
Postmarks, postage and revenue stamps, and monograms, for postage and revenue stamps.
K. G. Easton, West Berkeley, Cal.
Thirty foreign stamps, for five stamps of the following countries: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Cape of Good Hope, Hong-Kong.
H. L. J.,
Lock Box 721, Granville, Licking County, Ohio.
Postmarks, for stamps.
James G. Barbour,
25 Fulton Street, Pittsburgh, Penn.
Twenty-eight old coins, for any curiosity or Indian relics. A good Indian bow and a few arrows especially desired.
A Subscriber of "Young People,"
P. O. Box 930, Rushford, Fillmore Co., Minn.
A few shells from Calcutta, India, for ocean curiosities, or any pretty thing for a collection. Mosses and pressed ferns especially desired. Flower seeds also exchanged.
Ella Stull,
Greenville, Darke County, Ohio.
Ten foreign postage stamps, for an Indian arrow-head, or two stamps from the Cape of Good Hope.
Freeman Woodbridge,
Care of Dr. J. Woodbridge,
New Brunswick. N. J.
Postmarks and Canadian postage stamps, for shells from the Pacific and Southern coasts, or other curiosities. Correspondents will please label specimens.
Miss M. Frank Le Count,
South Norwalk, Conn.
Stones from the Arkansas River, cotton as it comes from the field, cotton seed, postmarks, and scales of the alligator gar-fish, for United States or foreign coins. Correspondents will please label coins.
Collector, care of Postmaster,
Heckatoo, Lincoln County, Ark.
Old United States and foreign postage stamps, for coins and minerals.
Gustavus Schaember,
159 Prince Street, New York City.
Ten Pennsylvania postmarks, for the same number of any other State or Territory, or Canada.
Cliff C. Garrison,
Brookville, Jefferson County, Penn.
Twenty-five postmarks, for five rare postage stamps.
R. C. Williams, Jun.,
240 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A stone from Pennsylvania, for one from any other State; or postmarks, for foreign stamps—Chinese especially desired.
Walter J. Wells,
Oswayo, Potter County, Penn.
An ounce of the soil of New York, for the same from any other State. Western soil particularly desired.
Ernest S. Green,
123 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sea-shells, for foreign postage stamps.
C. H. Tucker,
63 Cass Avenue, Corner of Adams,
Detroit, Mich.
Fragments of figured pottery from sites of ancient Mohawk Indian villages, for Indian relics from other localities.
R. C. Hall,
Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y.
Stones from the shore of Lake Erie, for stones or ores from other localities, or foreign postage stamps.
Frank W. Fullkerson,
78 Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
European, Chinese, and Japanese postage stamps, for minerals.
Clarence Henne,
39 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, N. J.
Latest issues of German, French, and Italian postage stamps, and curiosities, for curiosities.
L. H. Trotter,
22 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Penn.
Postmarks, for fossils and minerals.
Fletcher M. Noe,
165 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
Foreign postage stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or fossils.
Harry S. Jeanes,
521 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penn.
Postage stamps, postmarks, minerals, shells, wood, feathers, or any Texas curiosity, for copper or zinc ore, ocean curiosities, or anything suitable for a museum.
Frank D. Davis, Groesbeck, Texas.
United States War Department stamps, for foreign stamps.
Montgomery M. Taylor,
Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.
Coins, for an Indian tomahawk or pipe, shells, minerals, coins, or other curiosities.
Alfred W. Kerr,
22 Crescent Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
G. H.—"The Story of George Washington" ran through ten numbers of Harper's Young People, Vol. I., beginning in No. 24, April 13, and ending in No. 33, June 15.
Clement L. and Virginia H. P.—In 1872, Captain Lawson, an Englishman, accompanied by a band of natives, explored the island of Papua, or New Guinea. In the published account of his travels mention is made of Mount Hercules, which, according to his measurements, is 32,783 feet above the sea-level, or over 3000 feet higher than Mount Everest. Captain Lawson's statement has not yet been verified by farther scientific investigation, and the latest geographies and encyclopædias continue to name Mount Everest as the highest known peak on the earth's surface.
Minnie G.—A Brazilian silver milreis, or one thousand reis, is worth about fifty-one cents, United States currency. The face value of a ten-reis postage stamp is about half a cent.—Cancelled stamps are commonly used in exchange by our correspondents, as new ones are difficult to obtain, especially those of foreign countries.
A. A. Y. C.—The cost of material for sail-boat described in Young People No. 66 is about fifteen dollars. For the other information you require, go to the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, in which city you live, and talk with the boatmen and boat-builders there.
J. M.—A new boat like the one you describe will cost from seventy-five to one hundred dollars. You may be able to obtain one second-hand in good condition for half that sum. The expense of starting a club would depend entirely upon the outlay to which the members mutually agree. It might be confined to the price of your boat and rowing suits, and the rent of some place to store your boat.
John T.—A note from Mr. Casey, containing his address and a kind offer to reply to correspondents, was printed in the Post-office Box of Harper's Young People No. 61.
Willie B. S.—When the Colonial Congress was in session in Philadelphia in 1774 a motion was made to open the proceedings with prayer. It was opposed on the ground that as the members belonged to different denominations, they would be unable to join in the same act of worship. But Mr. Samuel Adams, who was a strict Presbyterian, said he could listen to a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue who was at the same time a friend to his country, and named Mr. Jacob Duché, an Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, as such a person. The motion was then passed, and Mr. Duché appeared the next morning, and officiated with great fervor. He subsequently became a traitor to his country, and even attempted to persuade Washington to desert to the British.
Walter S. D.—The two New York firms that carry and distribute mail matter within the limits of the city of New York are Boyd's Dispatch and Hussey's Dispatch. They claim this right in virtue of a special privilege given them many years ago by the city government. Whatever this right may be in theory, it certainly holds good in practice, for the general government has tried time and time again to break up these concerns, but without avail.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
ENIGMA.
My first in quill, not in pen.
My second in duck, not in hen.
My third in river, not in lake.
My fourth in biscuit, not in cake.
My fifth in soon, not in late.
The capital I of a foreign state,
Upon whose shore by night and day
The Pacific dashes in foam and spray.
Dame Durden.