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conduct. It is of more immediate consequence 

 to insist on this, at a moment when we have in 

 contemplation the confirmation of character in 

 the pupil, by introducing him to a knowledge 

 of his social duties, and when a breach of order 

 will become a source of complicated mischief. 

 Let me then warn the tutor, as he tenders his 

 own gratification, in the early establishment of 

 such character, and as he would avoid the per- 

 plexing difficulties of having to rally a parcel 

 of troops in disorder, at the most interesting 

 moments of service, to divest himself, during 

 the first period of bringing his pupil to act in 

 brigade, of all tendencies to blood. Let him 

 dismiss from his mind every thought concerning 

 the possession of the bird, which has not imme- 

 diately for its object a lesson to the pupil 

 respecting the mode of that possession. If he 

 have not virtue enough to resist the solicitations 

 of the game-bag, leave it at home; lest it should 

 divert his attention from the delivery of these 

 lessons, at the critical moments of Take heed 

 to point, or of Down charge to the shot, in 

 such well-advised way as shall make the pupil 

 clearly comprehend his new duties, and the 

 nature of that respect which he will hereafter 

 be called on to pay to the good order of society, 

 in return for the means thus afforded of greatly 



