timate one
with another, or with the boys; they may communicate their respective
observations; poison the minds of your boys with injurious reflections
on your character; or revolt, and make a confusion in your school.

SECT. 5. If a search is to be made after some hoards of forbidden
dainties, the information must always be declared to come from an
usher; it will preserve the odium from you: but the seizure must be
made by you or your wife; it will afford you an agreeable repast.

SECT. 6. If a boy be sent home, whose parents are in low circumstances,
the usher is the man to accompany him: he is the properest person to
inform the parents what progress the boy makes: and to send your
footman would be making no distinction betwixt the children of the poor
and the rich.

SECT. 7. If a beggar appears at the door, your usher is the man to send
him away, both because he may be mistaken for the master of the house,
and because he ought, whilst the boys are at play, to be always at the
door.

SECT. 8. If you see an usher writing a letter, or reading in
school-time, send him a boy to teach; it will shew your regard to the
welfare of your boys.

SECT. 9. Never let your ushers have money before-hand; they may
abscond: and you may as well seek a criminal in a coal-mine, as an
usher in an academy.

SECT. 10. Never introduce an usher into company; it will lessen your
authority, and he will undermine your credit.

SECT. 11. Let them always breakfast with the servants, or in some other
equally humble manner; it will keep them at a due distance from you,
and make them the more thankful for what little notice you may think
proper to take of them.

SECT. 12. If any of them dislike you, and give you notice of their
intentions to leave you, let them go the first possible opportunity; it
will prevent their behaving awhile remarkably well, and rendering their
memory grateful to the boys: it will also look as if some quarrel had
been the occasion of their abrupt departure.

SECT. 13. Never speak well of an usher when he is gone, nor recommend
him to another place; if bad he does not deserve it; if good, it is
your interest to keep him as long as you can, and never to suppose or
allow him good for any thing after he is gone.

SECT. 15. If an usher have it in his power to make advantages of his
leisure-hours, this must be carefully denied him; it will make him
independent.

CHAP. X.

OTHER SERVANTS.

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