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they may earn their bread and butter ; for such, that sort of work 

 must come first. But there are also those who come up in order that 

 they may be generally well educated; for such, and especially for 

 those who are to enter the army, or to become men of affairs, or to 

 manage their own estates, or be incumbents of country parishes, 

 I can believe that the method, economy, tact, and management of 

 men which are learned in keeping a pack of beagles, and dealing with 

 farmers and subscribers, is no bad training. I am certain that it is 

 infinitely better than any game. 



This chapter cannot be better concluded than in the words with 

 which a former secretary concludes his remarks on a loose sheet in 

 the book : — 



" No time for more. I hope these notes may help a secretary 

 who finds himself with a pile of papers he knows nothing about. 



Floreat Scientia 



ET 



T. F. B." 



A MiNOU Farm EH. 



