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come so. We will pay the house a visit, where an early 

 dinner is intended, so that it will be out of the way before 

 the rush comes. We will eat ours, when we can relieve 

 the boys and stand guard while they are taking in their 

 provender. Your boys are certainly models, not only at- 

 tentive and. careful in the performance of their duties, but 

 they seem to take pride in them, and their appearance is 

 as neat and tidy as those whose business is not near so 

 trying on the clothes. 



PUPIL. I feel proud of them. Formerly they cared for 

 nothing, and when their work was done, would listlessly 

 saunter about. The money they earned was as good as 

 thrown away, and they seemed to have an abhorrence of 

 clean clothes. Since they have acquired a taste for read- 

 ing a taste which I have cultivated as far as I could the 

 change has been marvellous. They now aspire to know- 

 ledge that will fit them for any station, pertaining to the 

 management of horses, and are all of them saving money 

 so as to make the winter months the most profitable, by 

 going to school, when I will warrant they will be indus- 

 trious hi remedying the defects the want of education in- 

 flicts. Perhaps the partial seclusion of private training- 

 grounds, has assisted in keeping them away from the 

 temptations they have been accustomed to, though I feel 

 there is no danger of a relapse, and shall look for them to 

 make valuable men, when their education is completed. 



PRECEPTOR. The lessons on order that have been incul- 

 cated, have made those boys worth double the money they 

 would have been, if they had not acquired this great 

 quality. Everything about the stable shows the care that 

 has been taken, and the clothes, harness, and vehicles, are 

 not only in better condition, but will last three times as 

 long as if they had been neglected; and the satisfaction 

 of having such well-behaved and good-looking boys is 



