Economy is a fine thing, and makes nine pence go further than a shilling. Where avarice is the absolute master, the man is a miser. We have heard persons talk of the days of childhood as the happiest in mortal life, but we do not agree with them; the sorrows of childhood take a very intense possession of the little ones, and in their grief everything seems lost, whereas the full-grown mind is divided in sorrow, and other considerations come in to temper the wind of trouble. The service of the world