ltivating their
farm. Perhaps my cousin Kate had something to do with my resolution.
At all events, when I proposed it she appeared very well pleased.

Leo, when he heard of it, exclaimed, "Oh, how delightful! because then,
Andrew, you will not carry Natty away, as I was afraid you might have
done; and he and I can manage to get on so capitally together. We have
formed all sorts of plans already, and I only hope that you may marry
Kate, and he, by-and-by, can marry Sheila; and then we shall all be
brothers, `and live happily together to the end of our days,' as the
story books say."

Though our voyage was a pleasant one, I was very thankful when at length
the lofty height of Table Mountain appeared ahead, covered with its
table-cloth, and we dropped our anchor off Cape Town. We had still a
long journey before us; but at length the anxiety which my uncle and
aunt had been so long suffering on account of the non-appearance of
their children was relieved by our safe arrival at their farm.

After a few days' rest, we all set to work on the special duties
apportioned us. Kate did not neglect Bella's education, even though in
the course of the following year she became the mistress of a house of
her own, of which I was the master. David settled down as the medical
man of the district. Stanley, though he occasionally went out hunting,
became a first-rate farmer, ably assisted by Timbo, Chickango, and Igubo
and his two sons, who expressed no desire to return to their part of
Africa. Jack Handspike accompanied Mr Gritton to sea, but lately came
back again, saying that he had had enough of it, and was determined
henceforth to plough the land instead of the ocean. I may say of myself
and of all my friends indeed, that "whatsoever our hands find to do, we
do it with all our might," humbly endeavouring to serve God in our daily
walk in life, and thereby enjoy that true happiness which even in this
world can be obtained by those who know the right way to seek it.

THE END.

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