To the above tablet of admonitions, which, 

 as of general import, I would engrave on the 

 memory of the tutor, I have only to subjoin a 

 few cautionary observations, more exclusively 

 addressed to yourself*. 



NEVER suffer your children to ramble out 

 with your dog, under the notion of exercise or 

 airing, in order to pick up vices upon every 

 haunt he comes to. Neither take them along 

 with you to the field. You will call this a 

 prater-necessary piece of austerity. Indeed, 

 Sir, it is not, until something like discipline is 

 established ; unless you can keep them totally 

 at distance, or close behind you in silence, and 

 in a state which would be to them a heavy 

 punishment, you have no notion how much their 

 mere presence, by distracting attention, will 

 impede instruction f. Remember too you have 



* The negative examples of tutorage, so forcibly held out 

 by the author, and the cautions against evil communications 

 and the early habits of vice, being conceived, mutatis 

 mutandis, of much general application, the whole of this 

 concluding passage has been retained, without alteration on 

 the part of the Editor. 



t It is a curious fact, that in the fanciful education which, 

 with a view of public exhibition, is given to the horse, one 

 of the secrets of his trick-teacher is to prevent the most 

 minute disturbance of his fancy, or seduction of his attention, 



