I have a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to exchange with other collectors. I have also a collection of postmarks, and I will give twenty (all different) for any egg not already in my collection.
De Witt Ayres, Penn Yan, Yates Co., N. Y.
I want to tell you what mamma gave me for my Christmas present. A little while before Christmas she said she was tired of moving my Harper's Young People round from one place to another, so she gathered them all up and put them away, as I thought. But Christmas-eve they came back to me handsomely bound, and I find them a great deal nicer to read. In looking through the book I find a great many pieces I never noticed before. Mamma says I can take it until I am fifteen, and have it bound every year. I am eleven years old now, so then I will have five nice volumes.
I am beginning a collection of curiosities, and would like to exchange small sea-shells or stones with any little boy or girl for any curiosity, or for different kinds of moss.
Jessa Pearson,
Xenia, Greene County, Ohio.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I have received so many letters in answer to my request for exchange that I can not possibly supply all demands immediately, but will do so as soon as possible. I hope those who have been so kind as to write to me will not think I have forgotten them.
Annie P. Carrier.