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 ing of a dilatory carriage; the opening of the mail; the cessation of unwelcome rain; or a hundred similar daily occurrences. It is Mabel's thorough appreciation of the value of time, and the economical employment of these usually neglected, uncounted moments, which enable her thus to surpass others in undertaking largely, and accomplishing proportionately; and have revealed to us the full interpretation of that poetically expressed but practical truth, "Spare moments are the golddust of time."