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active business supervision is maintained by the 

 committee or a superintendent, results may be even 

 more advantageous. 



Failing these forms of stabling, our friend is apt, 

 next in order, to keep a man of his own, who for a 

 wage of about twenty to twenty-five dollars monthly 

 and board — or ten dollars weekly without — 

 undertakes to care for the horse, etc., milk the cow, 

 run the garden, rake the drive, black the boots, tend 

 the furnace, and do other odd jobs. This " hand " 

 — for we can hardly call him coachman — is usually 

 about one remove from a day labourer both in ap- 

 pearance and in ability — and, as the man said who 

 fell out of the balloon, he " does the best he can." 

 That his best is not very good, the seedy appearance 

 of the family outfit proves, as does the fact that Billy 

 neither holds the flesh nor bears the blooming coat 

 which the size of the feed-bills should seem to en- 

 sure, — the fact being that Patrick, among his other 

 failings, doesn't know how to feed. A modification 

 of this plan is in popular use, whereby the man-of- 

 all-work attends to all the general " chores," includ- 



