Chapter 17 SWIFTNESS IN DUTY.

"Life is a leaf of paper white,

Whereon each one of us may write

His word or two-and then comes night."

-LOWELL.

Many good people are very slow. They do their work well enough, perhaps, but so leisurely that they accomplish in their brief time only a fraction of what they might accomplish. They lose, in aimless loitering, whole golden h