I am a boy twelve years old. We live near the woods, and mamma is
helping me to make a leaf-album. I have a good many sheets of paper
covered with pressed leaves, such as elm, cotton-wood, plum,
willow, etc. It is a very interesting occupation, and the leaves
look very pretty when pressed out. It teaches us so much about the
woods too. I have a small cabinet of curiosities also. We live near
a school-house, and the other day I found a wren's nest in a
rose-bush in the school yard. We watch it very closely to keep the
boys away until the little ones can fly. We think it is a very
pretty idea to build a nest among the roses. Don't you? YOUNG
PEOPLE is the best of papers.