_d_., blue, surcharged in red above,
"Three Pence."

DOMINICA.--New values of 1/2_d_., yellow; 2-1/2_d_., brown; 4_d_.,
blue; and a postal card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown.

DANISH WEST INDIES.--A new value, 50_c_., same type as current
series, in mauve.

GOLD COAST.--Stamps of 1/2_d_., golden yellow, and 2_d_., green;
and card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown.

GREAT BRITAIN.--The 2-1/2_d_. stamp is printed in blue, and the
2_s_. changes from blue to red-brown.

MONTSERRAT.--New stamps of 2-1/2_d_., red-brown, and 4_d_., blue;
and postal card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown.

NEVIS.--New stamps of 2-1/2_d_., red-brown, and 4_d_., blue; and
postal card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown.

PERU.--A new series of stamps is in preparation, but for the
present the authorities surcharge the current stamp with the
words, "Union Postale Universelle" and "Plata," in an oval. The
1_c_. changes its color to green, the 2_c_. to carmine, and the
20_c_. is suppressed.

ROUMELIA.--This province of Turkey begins its stamp history with a
postal card of the value of 10 paras, as expressed on the face,
but in reality of 15 paras, at which it is sold.

BUTTERFLIES AND BEES.

Butterflies are merry things,
Gayly painted are their wings,
And they never carry stings.
Bees are grave and busy things,
Gold their jackets, brown their wings,
And _they always_ carry stings.
Yet--isn't it extremely funny?--
Bees, not butterflies, make honey.

[Illustration: GATHERING THE WATER-CRESSES.]

AN APRONFUL OF WATER-CRESSES.

BY MARGARET EYTINGE.

Cissy Mount came down to the gurgling, sparkling little brook at the
foot of the hill, where Frank Hillborn and his brother Dave were
gathering water-cresses.

"I'm going to Fairview, Frank," she said, "and came to ask you if you
would look in on mother by-and-by, and see if she needs anything."

"Of course I will," said Frank. "But you're not going to walk to
Fairview, Cissy? That's a long tramp for a girl."

"Yes, I am," she replied. "There's no other way I can go. Nobody that I
know ever drives down there. Mother wants me to try and get her some
sewing to do. You know there are five or six big stores there, and
mother can sew and knit beautifully. I wish I had time to pick some wild
flowers to take with me. Town-people like wild flowers."

"A good many of them like something fresh