A GOOD TRAINING. 
month, on receiving his pay of five pounds, he awoke 
next morning in receipt of a salary of thirty. 
Months and years come and go, and during the 
slack season some of Mr. Stediman’s friends deter- 
mined upon paying him a visit ; they find just the 
same man, only living in a larger and better furnished 
house. He had an assistant and conductor, but they 
were merely to assist him in, not to do the work 
themselves. He went about the same as ever, in 
rain and sunshine, and not only ordered work to be 
done, but saw that it was done and done properly. 
Such are the effects of original training, even if 
principle should be deficient, but when the two are 
combined they are generalJy impregnable, a strong 
fortress which can treat with indilference and con- 
tempt ail attempts made to carry it by assault ; and 
so it generally is. Any one on the outlook for a 
superintendent should by no means overlook the 
very important question: “ Where and by whom was 
he originally trained?” And so it was and stdl is, 
that any sharp clear- beaded manager on the lookout 
for an assistant would do well to consider not only 
the ability of the applicant, but the character of 
the estate he has been on, and who first was his 
superior. For it is beyond a doubt that all or 
nearly ail in every trade or calling must, in some 
degree, and to a certain extent, more or less, adopt 
the habits, views and opinions of those to whom they 
served an apprenticeship, or under wFose instructions 
and regulations they were originally “brought out.” 
There are some managers, and it is to be hoped 
many, from whom an assistant may wdth confidence 
be received, merely on their brief recommendation, 
the bare fact that tiiey have been a few years under 
them being quite a sufficient one without any other 
notice whatever, as there were some managers, and 
no doubt are now, from whom no recommendation 
whatever would be any inducement to receive an 
assistant who had been, however nominally, under 
their training, if training indeed it could be called. 
Perhaps these remarks are too severe : they may be, 
if circumstances are considered, for we cannot or 
could not expect those to train or qualify others foi- 
any calling, who never were trained or qualified them- 
selves. It is just reason and common sense, and 
applicaMe everywhere in the old country: those who 
understand their business, whose plain principles are 
“^Business first and pleasure after”; ‘‘You can’t eat 
your pudding at night and have it in the morning,” 
are more than likely to turn out their apprentices 
monfe the same eampt .Only, as we are all crea- 
