Not that she makes it come out right to a penny.

She has been treasurer of the Boston Band of Benevolence, of the Saturday Morning Sloyd Circle, of the Club for the Reception of Russian Refugees, and of the Society for the Brooding of Buddhism; but none of these organisations carries on its existence by means of pounds, shillings, and pence, or Salemina's resignation would have been requested long ago.

However, we are not disposed to be captious; we are too glad to get rid of the bill.

If our united thirds make four or five shillings in excess, we divide them equally; if it comes the other way about, we make it up in the same manner; always meeting the sneers of masculine critics with Dr.Holmes's remark that a faculty for numbers is a sort of detached-lever arrangement that can be put into a mighty poor watch..