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ETHEL CHURCHILL.
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enabling us to get through our weary existence. The intellect cannot sustain its sunshine flight long; the flagging wing drops to the earth. Pleasure palls, and idleness is

"Many gathered miseries in one name;"

but business gets over the hours without counting them. It may be very tired at the end, still it has brought the day to a close sooner than any thing else.