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sity of truth, will lead to the owning of a fault. 

 It is a capital rule never to charge your boy with 

 any crime without making sure of conviction. If 

 you have begun the charge, spare no pains to make 

 the conviction complete ; for if you fail in this, 

 and the accused be really guilty, you have, de- 

 signing good, done incalculable harm: you have 

 strengthened, all the time of examination, his 

 hardihood of denial; you have allowed his lies to 

 pass off triumphant; and have encreased at once 

 his sulkiness, self-esteem, and hatred of your per- 

 son. But the moment that proof comes home and 

 conviction is wrought, shame and perhaps tears 

 show the good that has been gained, and give hope 

 of future amendment. 



Make your boy to understand that you want 

 diligence not hard work; and indeed compassion 

 ought always to be had for a frame that is but little 

 matured. It is of great use to know what is rea- 

 sonable to expect of such an age. A boy at four- 

 teen is not equal to more than one fourth of a man's 

 work at any thing heavy; but in lighter tasks; 

 such as picking up stones and weeds, he may be 

 equal to a half. Give him all the benefit of the 

 common rules: a full hour of rest twice within 

 the ordinary period of labour; and if you have a 

 message to any considerable distance, let the re- 

 quisite time be taken from the working hours. 

 This adds greatly to willingness, which, if it be 

 gained, will make all right; for the physical powers 

 are quite adequate to all that you want ; the diffi- 



