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42 our American eagle, with spread wings covering almost the whole of one side, and that is for our freedom. Some of our ten cent pieces bear a lighted torch to carry the message of freedom as long as the coin lasts. A copper penny is quite the most interesting coin of all in design. It shows you the Indian who gave us our land, and the laurel wreath of our great Nation. It shows us President Lincoln, too, who was one of our greatest citizens, and the grain that gives us our food. As we look at these beautiful coins that are our currency, we see at once that they really mean something to Uncle Sam. We ought to think very carefully about the way in which we spend our money.

It is an excellent plan, of course, to save pennies and dimes and quarters. It is very much better than to eat them up in candy. Spending money wisely, though, is another way of saving; it helps the money work, and increase, and give back to us a different kind of value. When you buy some ink, or paper, or a book, you are saving money by turning it into your brain power. When you spend money for needles, or cloth, or thread, or some wood to make a bee frame, and a chicken coop, or buy a setting hen, or a pig, or seeds, or garden tools; or spend it for anything to be made into something useful, or to help something to