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proper extension of confidence ; though tsL^ 

 ken in the aggregate, the proportion is so 

 exceedingly inferior^ that well-bought expe- 

 rience amply justifies me in the opinion, 

 that the greater number of dependants there 

 are retained in any one family, (however 

 small the scale, or extensive the establish- 

 ment) the more the employer becomes the 

 hourly prey of plunder and imposition. 



Habituated to a belief of this fact, which 

 it is beyond the power of either argument 

 or sophistry to disprove, I have long held 

 in retention two excellent maxims (originally 

 from high authority) that constitute a useful 

 TRIO, in conjunction with the emphatical 

 precept of the farmer. That of " never 

 putting off tilb to-morroxi) what can be done 

 to-day /* or, " letting another do for you 

 what you can do for yourself* These rules 

 conditionally adhered to, as much as cir- 

 cumstances, situation, and relative conside- 

 rations will admit, would, I believe, have 

 saved from ruin, thousands who have been 

 depredated by the villainy of servants, and 

 now lament, in the most distressing indi- 

 gence, their former inadvertency. 



