484 SERVANTS. [OCT. 



qualify the measure rlmost into that of hiring a 

 common servant. In a large farm, his business is 

 to be perpetually on the watch on all the people, 

 of whatever sort, employed ; consequently he must 

 not work, which confines him to one place. This 

 part of his employment renders it necessary that 

 he should be of a rank, something above the best 

 sort of servants and workmen ; for if one from that 

 has the command given him, he will not be 

 well obeyed. A bailiff should ever preserve a due 

 authority over all the people employed ; and, for this 

 purpose, his master would iiml it very useful to 

 allow him to hire his own servants and labourers, 

 or at least to give him liberty to turn any of them 

 away. 



Respecting market transactions, all buying, selling, 

 bargaining, and receiving money, it is highly advis- 

 able for the master to do all bu f that sort : it 

 is dangerous to trust these servants too much : not 

 for fear of their running away vyith money ; but nu- 

 merous money transactions, of which it is impossi- 

 ble the master can have an entire check, have at least 

 a tendency to give opportunities of dishon ;ich 

 may have a bad effect: ; and market met- tings, for the 

 transaction of this sort of business, are likewise too 

 apt to hazard the sobriety of a bailiff. 



As to other servants, the principal are the plough- 

 men ; for on them depends, in a good measure, the 

 of all crops. In a large business, it will be 

 difficult to have all good hands; but a man 

 should aim at it ii as possible; for a bad plough- 



man makes very indiiferent worjt, but skims the land 



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