Yet there is occasion to deplore the improvidence that is fostered and that prevails, especially among those receiving their incomes in the form of wage or salary.

"There is but little light, and portable property in that house in Clapham that has escaped my lamentable improvidence, but there are one or two thingsthe iron-bound chest, the bureau with a broken hinge, and the large air pumpdistinctly pawnable if only you can contrive to get them to a pawnshop.

" The conclusions which Big Joe drew, such as they were, he was unable to communicate intelligibly until the morrow, for the train was late and they drank of the liquor until the Colonel had time to lament his improvidence in bringing away so little of it.

They lived there on next to nothing; they owed money, they typified gay improvidence with the four little mouths which they already had to feed, those children who had sprung from their love, their faith in life.