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his hired man respectfully. If you are troubled with hired 

 men you cannot respect, don't be forever telling over their 

 failings and nursing your dislike. Better discharge them 

 and hire men you can treat well. I know two or tln-ee 

 boss mechanics who are in the liabit of hiring ignorant, 

 cheap, inefficient fellows, and then perpetually yelling at 

 them, and deriding them for their stupidity. For such 

 trouble the remedy is easy. Hire good help, and be a gen- 

 tleman. I know a farmer who will spoil a good hand in a 

 few weeks. He is forever crowding and rushing, so as to 

 get some particular piece of work done by such a time, and 

 such a time is always too short a time. A fresh hand will 

 work like a beaver for him for a few days, thinking that 

 when the man gets a little over his hurry work will go on 

 vath more moderation and regularity ; but the new hand 

 soon learns the truth. He finds he has got into an atmos- 

 phere of hurry, disorder and confusion. So he makes a 

 mule of himself, settles back into the breeching, and lets 

 the master drive. How much better a man feels doing a 

 good day's work willingly and cheerfully, than he does 

 doing the same work when he is crowded beyond his 

 strength, and nettled with coarse jokes and stinging sar- 

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There are men, — and I wish there were more, — who have 

 hired a great deal of help in their day, who have never 

 given to a hired man a disrespectful word. And such men 

 are not troubled with saucy help. Most hired help don't 

 want to hear anything about their work at the table. I 

 know a gentleman, and have worked for him many days, 

 who always has several men about him, building or farm- 



