I live on a farm about one mile from town.
We had a ring-dove given to us, and we bought a mate for it, and now we have four more. One is just hatched. Last summer, a year ago, we had a present of a pair of guinea-pigs, and we have raised six others. One of the little ones is pure white, except its head, which is black. It looks as if it had a mask on. My brother, who is ten years old, has a pigeon-house and about thirty pigeons. And he has six rabbits, which are all the time burrowing out of the pen, and a young shepherd dog. We have black and brown bantams, and two little red calves we call Spot and Lina, because one has a red spot on its back, and the other a white line.
Last spring I planted one small ear of pop-corn, and now I have gathered nearly eighty ears from it. I also planted ground-nuts.
My brother, my sister, and I have each a pair of stilts, and we have lots of fun inventing new ways to walk on them.
Bessie R. H.
I would like to exchange postage stamps of France and Germany with any readers of Harper's Young People. Correspondents will please put "Viâ England" on the envelope, as letters thus addressed are more likely to come safely.
B. D. Woodward, 49 im Trutz,
Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany.
I would like to exchange postmarks for foreign postage stamps, or for other postmarks, with any boy in the South or West.