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But if you would have reason and conscience to 

 rule, avoid every thing that is not reasonable. 

 Show no passion; for that always makes the youth 

 think that, whilst you profess to aim at mending 

 his conscience, your zeal is to make the most of his 

 labours. Avoid bad names, lest you appear in his 

 eyes to forget what he has read about "Raca" and 

 "Thou fool;" and never threaten dismissal without 

 a true purpose to effect it, should the offence for 

 which it is threatened be again repeated. If dis- 

 missal be spoken of lightly, it is of none effect; and 

 if not put in force after a serious declaration, good 

 cause is given for casting off the respect that is due 

 to your word. It may be, too, that the boy, not 

 daring to run home of his own accord, desires 

 nothing so much as to be sent away, in which case 

 a threat to that effect is the best sound he can hear, 

 and a strong inducement to do worse; resting as 

 he does in this, that he can contrive what to say 

 for himself when he gets to the ear of his mother. 

 But as compassion is due to one of so little dis- 

 cretion that in the eye of the law he is not held fit 

 to conduct his own affairs, and whose bread yet 

 depends on the character he attains, it is the most 

 humane as it will prove the most successful method 

 of dealing with him, to explain before one or more 

 of his fellow-servants the loss which, in his early 

 career, he must suffer by a dismissal from his place; 

 and to assure him that you will not inflict so much 

 grief on his parents, without first sending for them, 

 in order to make known his faults, and to try the 



