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'passage perilous.'

Seven years after, Livingstone's worn-out body had been laid in its
honoured grave in Westminster Abbey, where his countrymen crowded to do
him honour, and the African, who had watched so faithfully over his
remains, nearly threw himself into his loved master's grave. A man who
was also to lay down his life for Africa, met a native of the Rovuma
country wearing a part of an English coat. It had been given him, he
said, by one who treated black men 'as if they were brothers,' and who
knew his way to the hearts of men; and of all the honours paid to the
name of Livingstone, none surely would have pleased him better than that
memory, lingering among the dark brethren whose cause he had made his
own.

MARY H. DEBENHAM.

TIME FLIES.

Tick! tick! tick! the seconds go,
Flying, oh, so fast,
And almost before I know
Quite an hour is past:
Hour by hour goes quickly on,
Till another day is gone.

Day by day is going fast,
Morning grows to night,
Till they make a year at last
Vanished out of sight.
Days, weeks, months, all sped away--
Yet they wait just day by day.

As the days and minutes go,
Speeding one by one,
So my childhood, youth, I know
Will ere long be done:
Books and toys all put away,
Done with lessons, done with play.

Be it mine to use with care
Time that will not stay,
Doing always here or there
Something good each day:
For as streams to ocean flow,
Youth is speeding fast, I know.

THE SELF-HEAL.

The Self-heal has had a very wide repute for its good-qualities. It
belongs to the family of plants known as _Labiates_, which includes
mint, sage, thyme, and other aromatic plants; these flowers mostly have
a curious lip, and grow in a spike. The self-heal is not a tall plant,
though it flourishes more in the rich soil of a garden than on that of
the field-bank or the hedgerow. One curious thing about the plant is,
that the flowers do not open all together, but a few at a time, so that
it never looks in full bloom. These flowers are bright blue, with a
touch of crimson at the edges, the leaves being round and smooth. It is
the habit of the plant to throw out trailing shoots, so that when it
spreads over corn-fields, it causes much trouble to the labourers who
have to pull it up.

The name may seem a little singular. It does not mean the plant heals
itself, but that it contains the power to cure o