78 



NEVER go out without a whip, if you dislike 

 the trouble of flogging. The conviction of 

 its presence will supersede much of the 

 necessity of its use ; and if you leave it at 

 home to-day, you will find a threefold call 

 for its employment to-morrow. Moreover, 

 " it must needs be that offences come ;" 

 and this is the mildest mode of punishing 

 the offender. A hedge-stake is but an 

 awkward kind of thing wherewithal to 

 preserve the due relation between correc- 

 tion and crime : and, in a country where 

 "the rarity of so valuable a piece of timber" 

 puts it out of your immediate reach, you 

 may incur the risk, from some unguarded 

 spring to restrain a furious dash on the 

 part of your pupil, of fracturing his ribs 

 by a kick, or of bending a gun-barrel 

 over his brain-case. 



NEVER pass a blunder unnoticed, nor a fault 

 unpunished. 



NEVER administer the punishment without an 

 endeavour on your part to make him com- 

 prehend the nature of his offence : e. g. of 

 Take heed! for a spring, whether acci- 

 dental, heedless, or vicious; of Ware chase! 

 where such daring unpardonable crime has 



