MARVELLOUS STRIDES ON THE ROAD TO WEALTH,

From various causes. I remember one man who, in six years, beginning

life at the _very beginning_, saved enough to retire upon an

independence for the rest of his life. Did he _chalk double_? I answer

not. But students should look to these things. At St. John's College,

Cambridge, the tutors have adopted an excellent plan by which, with

ordinary diligence, cheats may be detected: they oblige the tradesmen

to furnish them with duplicates of their bills against the students,

one of which is handed to the latter, and any error pointed out, they

will be _forced_ to rectify.

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