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tion is not a verv easy task, but it is an extremely 

 necessary one: if, after an excursion which has car- 

 ried him into great, and what is called good com- 

 pany, he returns home not quite so well satisfied 

 with home as he was before, he has contracted a 

 taint that may be worse than the scab among his 

 sheep. The caustic of wholesome self-discipline be- 

 comes necessary. He should guard carefully against 

 one of the most natural propensities, or his plea- 

 sures (partially assuming somewhat of the garb of 

 business) will prove like the pleasures of so many 

 other classes, treacherous dissipation, and lay a 

 foundation for uneasiness and regret. 



Letter to a Friend. " With a small, but in- 

 creasing family, you have taken possession of your 

 estate, which, if I understand you clearly, is of the 

 gross rental, including the lands in hand, of about 

 6ool. a year ; and that the net receipt, every out- 

 going paid, is 46ll.: this will be your whole de- 

 pendence, fcr it cannot be prudent to reckon upon 

 any profit at present from the 180 acres of farm 

 which your father occupied, and which you have 

 in occupation. 



" The best advice I can give you is, to consider 

 with particular attention how very necessary a steady 

 and unremitted economy, upon a well -matured 

 system, is, for enabling you to live, and bring up 

 a family, in the class of gentlemen, upon such an, 

 income; and to explain as well as I am able, how 

 much, on such a plan, will depend on your hus- 

 bandry being rendered gradually so beneficial, as to 



make 



