MINUTES.

WE are but minutes—little things!
Each one furnished with sixty wings,
With which we fly on our unseen track,
And not a minute ever comes back.

We are but minutes; use, use us well,
For how we are used we must one day tell.
Who uses minutes has hours to use;
Who loses minutes whole years must lose.

[!-- Illustration - THE COW AND HER CALF --]


GOING FOR THE LETTERS.

AN AUSTRALIAN STORY.