I want to tell Young People what a pleasant winter we are having in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, three thousand feet above the sea. We have no snow. I found willow "pussies" on the 18th of January, and sister Bell found some spring flowers two days later.
Our dog Rover went hunting, and came home with his nose full of porcupine quills. Papa had a hard time pulling them out, it hurt Rover so badly.
I do not go to school in the winter. I study at home. I study language lessons, arithmetic, botany, spelling, and geography. I am eight years old. I want to take Young People always.
I will exchange minerals from the mines, for shells or any other curiosities, with any readers of the Post-office Box.
Lou R. Keep, Smiths Hill,
East Branch of Feather River, California.
I would like to exchange stamps of the United States Treasury and State Departments, postmarks, and Canadian and foreign postage stamps, for rare stamps and postmarks, or for specimens of ores, minerals, or shells. Correspondents will please label specimens.
I am ten years old.
Willie M. Bloss,
U. S. Consulate-General, Montreal, Canada.
I would like to exchange a pair of new nickle-plated club skates, which I do not need, as I have another pair, for any other similar article.
W. J. H.,
343 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Lucknow, November 30, 1880.