J. M. C.

Mr. M‘Creery first printed this little effusion of his just and vigorous

mind on a small slip, one of which he gave at the time to the editor of

the _Every-Day Book_, who if he has not like

------ the little busy bee

Improved each shining hour,

is not therefore less able to determine the value of those that are gone

for ever; nor therefore less anxious to secure each that may fall to

him; nor less qualified to enjoin on his youthful readers the importance

of this truth, “that time once gone, ne’er comes again.” He would bid

them remember, in the conscience-burning words of one of our poets,

that--

“Time is the stuff that life is made of.”

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