DEAR POSTMISTRESS,--I am in the woods now, but am soon going up
town to my home. I was ten years old a few weeks ago, and my papa
has given me HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for a birthday present ever
since it began. The other day my mamma and I took a walk in the
woods, and found two kinds of fungus--one was the "earth star" (a
good description of which is in _Appleton's Cyclopædia_), the other
was tiny toadstools growing on oak leaves in the sand, with
slender, shining stems, black as ebony, and whitish tops, which
look as if designed for fairy parasols. Would you please tell me
the name?
I have a puzzle for the C. Y. P. R. U.'s that I found in a
newspaper: "I went out in the woods and got it; after I got it, I
looked for it; the more I looked for it the less I liked it; I
brought it home in my hand because I couldn't find it."