APPENDIX. 83 



When a lad is found to have an extraordinary {hare 

 of ability and fmartnefs, one year of his time is given 

 up, or, in other words, he is put on man's wages a 

 year before the ufual time. 



I am apt to believe, that a fyftem, which has been 

 found to be of fuch general ufe by the ever to be re- 

 gretted the late Lord Mountjoy, will not eafily be for- 

 gotten by his fucceflbr ; nor do I in the leaft defpair of 

 finding it become general throughout our extenfive 

 improvements in the kingdom at large. 



It is eafy to conceive, that the certainty of having 

 the wages railed, at fixed periods, induces the boys 

 to ferve out their refpecYive times. If, however, it 

 fhould fo happen, that a lad, through tricks, or other 

 motives, fuch as going to fervice to a farmer, or the 

 like, and if, after fome time, he fhould change his 

 mind, and wifh to return again to join his work, in 

 this cafe he muft begin again, as if he never had been 

 entered at all, though the tranfgreffion fhould be com- 

 mitted the laft year previous to his being entitled to 

 man's wages ; thus few defertions ever take place. 



Upon the other hand, if any perfon, either young or 

 old, at Ra/h t fhould meet with any accident, when aclu- 

 ally engaged in any of the works, his time is always al- 

 lowed, as if he had been at work. Rajh is feldom 

 without a great number of invalids ; the great number 

 of working people, together with their intrepidity, fully 

 accounts for this circumfiance. 



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