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But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard, In your rambles in valleys and forests, Repeating your ultimate word. J. G. SAXE The Story of Echo. The babbling echo mocks the hounds, Replying shrilly to the well-tun'd horns, As if a double hunt were heard at once.— Shakespeare — Titus Andronicus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 17.

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.— SHELLEY — Adonais. St. 15.

Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, Though I speak without a tongue. Nought but one thing can confound me, Many voices joining round me, Then I fret, and rave, and gabble, Like the labourers of Babel.— SWIFT — An Echo.

And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And thunder'd up into Heaven.— TENNYSON — Maud. Pt. XXIII.

I heard *** *** the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.— TENNYSON — The Golden Year. L. 75.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying,. dying.— TENNYSON — Princess. IV. Bugle Song.

Like but oh! how different!— WORDSWORTH — Yes, it Was the

Mountain Echo.

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. S.— CARLYLE — Past and Present. Government. Ch. X.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say: "Take care of the pence; for the pounds will take care of themselves."— EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Letter.

To his Son, on Education. Nov. 6, 1747. A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Necessary Hints to

those that would be Rich. To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 223.

Economy, the poor man's mint.— TUPPER — Proverbial Philosophy. Of Society. L. 191.

Magnum vectigal est parsimonia. Economy is a great revenue.— CICERO — Paradoxa. VI. 3. 49.