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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 dismissal 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 in- 

 ducement 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 discretion 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 ex- 

 plain 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 effect of their admonitions on 

 his subsequent behaviour. 



The above observations, the author is persuaded, 

 will not be judged unworthy either of a place or of 

 perusal, when the frequency of their use and the 



