B. B.--It is not often that we can make room in the Post-office Box for pictures, and we are constantly compelled to decline pretty and interesting drawings by our young friends. We can much more easily give space to a short description in writing of any curious phase of wild Indian life that you may notice than to a pictured representation.
W. E. L.--Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to print.--Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find it a difficult art to learn. Several books of instruction have been published, but they are not very satisfactory, and you would learn better by procuring a good teacher than by endeavoring to follow the directions of a hand-book.
E. A. DE L.--A badge expressing the motto of your society is not very easy to invent. A gold shield bearing the letters F. S. arranged as a monogram, in blue, white, or black enamel would be very simple, and as appropriate, perhaps, as any more marked design.
Favors are acknowledged from Charles Werner, Ida L. G., Harry C. Earle, Pearl A. H., Isabella T. Niven, Will S. Norton, Mary K. Bidwell, George K. Diller, Anna Wierum, Mark Manly, Latham T. Souther, Maggie Behlendorff, Joey W. Dodson, Aaron W. King, Charlie, Hattie Wilcox, Clara Clark, Florence M. Donalds, Eddie L. S., Sarabelle, E. T. Rice, J. Fitzsimons, Cassie C. Fraleigh, Mary H. Lougee, Coleman E. A., Fred S. C., Eddie R. T., Edgar E. Helm, Emmer Edwards, Eunice Kate, Clarence D. C.
Correct answers to puzzles are received from Lena Fox, H. M. P., Stella Pratt, Mary L. Fobes, "Unle Ravaler," C. Gaylor, William A. Lewis, C. H. McB., Cal I. Forny, The Dawley Boys, Mary S. Twing.
Across.--A portable dwelling; a kind of food; to inclose; a poem. Down.--A consonant; a printer's measure; novel; a genus of plants; to hit gently; one of a printer's trials; a consonant.
My whole is a Latin quotation, composed of 24 letters, from the fifth book of Virgil's Æneid, which should be remembered by boys and girls.
My 8, 23, 18, 7, 13 is a city of South America.
My 2, 14, 22, 20, 6, 19 is a town of Belgium.
My 1, 16, 24, 9 is a country of South America.
My 21, 16, 17, 10, 4 is one of the British West Indies.
My 15, 12, 11 is a town of Belgium, once a famous resort.