Edna, Minnesota.
We live away out on the prairies. We are two miles from the Post-office. We have no public schools here, but our sister teaches us at home. I have a little black dog named Jack, who will not lie down without his cushion, and barks and barks until I get it for him. I sometimes ride on horseback, though I have no side-saddle. I am twelve years old.
Mary M.
I am Mary's brother Bertie. I am seven years old. I do not like to go to school. I would rather be out on the farm with the boys. I was out in the wheat field when there were 618 men at work there. I have a cat named Stubbs, and a colt named Toby Tyler. He will shake hands with me, and take off my hat.
Bertie M.
Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
We live in Trempealeau County. This is a beautiful village, situated on the banks of the Mississippi. My brother, with his wife, baby, and myself, and four other persons, with their children, took tents lately, and camped out at a place called Spring Slew. We had a very nice time, but were annoyed by the mosquitoes. We would like to exchange pressed ferns and oak leaves, for the same from any other State. The ferns are to be sent to Lizzie, and the leaves to Dena. Can those who are not subscribers be on the exchange list?
Lizzie Heuston,
Dena McDonald.
All readers, as we have said before, are entitled to become exchangers. They need not be subscribers to possess this privilege. We find it necessary to ask exchangers to be as brief as possible when writing an exchange. We have been obliged to condense some exchanges into half their original space, and still there are boys and girls who have been waiting their turn to appear for many weeks. When your exchange has been published, do not send another for some time. Let others state their offers first before you try a second or third time. Unless you could see with your own eyes, you would hardly believe what a host of exchanges arrive at the Post-office Box every day, and it would not do to fill Young People with them, and crowd all the stories, puzzles, and letters out. In all cases it would be well to have some correspondence by postal cards before sending what you wish to exchange. Then the terms could be clearly arranged, and if any special expense about postage were probable, that could be arranged too. We can not give addresses and assist readers to carry on private correspondences, however, except as they do it in this way.