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 The Academy Keeper
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
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 Academy Keeper. 
 
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 THE 
 
 Academy Keeper : 
 
 Or VARIETY of ufeful 
 
 DIRECTIONS 
 
 Concerning the Management of an 
 
 ACADEMY, 
 
 THE 
 
 TERMS, DIET, LODGING, RECREATION, 
 DISCIPLINE, and INSTRUCTION of 
 
 YOUNG GENTLEMEN. 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 Proper Methods of addrefiing Parents and 
 Guardians of all Ranks and Ceffiditions. 
 
 AS ALSO 
 
 NecefTary RULES for the proper Choice and Treat- 
 ment of Academy-Wives, Ufhers, and other 
 menial Servants ; with the Reafons of making 
 them public. 
 
 Ruanda pauperiem, mijfis ambagibus, horret ; 
 
 ipe, qua rat tone, queas ditefcere. HOR. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for THO. PEAT, No. 22. Fleet-Street. 
 M.DCC.LXX.

 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 AFTER many unfuccefsful 
 experiments, made fome 
 years ago, to retrieve a declining 
 fortune, I was lucky enough at 
 laft to marry the miftrefs of a 
 boarding-fchool : her circumftan- 
 ces were not, indeed, at the time of 
 our marriage, very confiderable. 
 But as I was neither unacquainted 
 with the world, nor the more ufe- 
 ful fciences, by a peculiar atten- 
 tion to the tempers of the boys, 
 and the difpofition s of their parents, 
 by a flexibility of face, for which 
 I was always remarkable, the af- 
 fiftance of a northern degree, and 
 a tolerable fliare of afliduity j I 
 foon accumulated a large fortune 
 
 with 
 
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 3^ll 
 
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 vi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 with credit. My eldeft daughter I 
 afterwards married to a favourite 
 ufher, refigned to him the fchool, 
 and for his fervice drew up moft 
 of the following rules. After his 
 deceale I favoured many others 
 with a copy, who adhered to them, 
 with equally great advantage, and 
 added a few to their number : I 
 therefore fhould not acquit myfelf 
 properly as a citizen of the world, 
 if I did not give every one an op- 
 portunity of feeing them who may 
 have occafion to ufe them. Many 
 alterations in the mode of educa- 
 tion render them indeed, at this 
 time, peculiarly neceffary. 
 Mothers, not fchool - mafters, 
 have with great propriety of kte, 
 the fole ciredion of their children's 
 
 ftuclies >
 
 INTRO D UCTION. vii 
 
 ftudies; as alfo what punifliments 
 fhall be inflided on them ; whnt 
 diverfions muft be allowed them j 
 what degree of infolence they may 
 exprefs to their ufhers ; and what 
 liberties they may take with their 
 fchool-fellows. Thefe are circum- 
 ftances formerly unknown, and 
 many, by a too great inattention 
 to them, and an adherence to the: 
 ancient plan, have lately been 
 ruined. 
 
 There is another inducement to 
 the publication of thefe rules, 
 which I muft not fupprcfs. The 
 caufe of learning declines with the 
 reputation of its friends. And if 
 we enquire, why the character of 
 an Academy - Keeper is treated 
 with fuch general contempt, we
 
 vlii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 fliall not find the true caufes to be 
 either fupercilioufnefs, pedantry, 
 ignorance, or venality, as the world 
 malicioufly infinuates, but the mo- 
 defty of thefe people, and their 
 difinterefted probity ; by the for- 
 mer of which they have unhappily 
 pro-vented the world from being 
 acquainted with their merit, and 
 by the latter prevented themfelves 
 from emerging out of a ftate of 
 poverty and raggednefs, which in 
 thefe golden days cannot be expec- 
 ted to find much courtefy in the 
 world. In retrieving therefore their 
 fortunes, we may not only re-efta- 
 blifli their characters, but adminif- 
 ter relief to learning and fcience, 
 which have been wounded through 
 their fides. 
 
 Nor
 
 INTRODUCTION, he 
 
 Nor were thefe my only mo- 
 tives for publishing thefe papers. 
 Another , and very confiderable one, 
 was the good of the public. The 
 parents of thefe times feem duly 
 fenfible of the advantages of a 
 good education, and are rather 
 defirous of having their children 
 inftrudted in the different branches 
 of polite literature, and genteel 
 deportment, than acquainted with 
 the crabbed writers of antiquity, 
 or the ufelefs diftindHons and di- 
 coveries of modern philofophical 
 fuhtilty. But, for want of proper in^ 
 formation, they know not where 
 thofe feveral accomplimments are 
 regularly taught, Thefe directions, 
 therefore, may be of the greateft 
 fervice - 3 fince by properly enqui- 
 
 ring
 
 x INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ring how many of them fhall be 
 hereafter pradifed at the refpedive 
 Academies in and near London ; 
 parents may generally know in 
 what fchool their children are 
 likelieft to receive the defired im- 
 provements. 
 
 l'Jt l^iii ' -> i 1 .. JjhJ JJ ' ' JO . ... ii. 
 
 Note. As it is not imagined that 
 the following Dire&ions are all 
 that may be neceflary, whoever 
 amongft my readers is kind enough 
 to communicate to my bookfeller 
 Others equally pertinent, may be 
 affured of finding them properly 
 noticed in the next edition. 
 
 A FRIEND to
 
 CONTENTS; 
 
 Page 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 ACADEMY TERMS, &c. r 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 DIET 6 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 LODGING -^ 9 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 RECREATION n 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 DISCIPLINE 12? 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 INSTRUCTION 15 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 ADDRESS 19 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 WIVES 21 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 USHERS and other SERVANTS 2
 
 ERRORS. 
 
 Page . ?. 8 9. Expences is, for expences arc. 
 1. 1 1 . charge, for charges. 
 
 Page 7. I. 9. is, for are. 
 
 . 1. n. boulli, for boullie. 
 
 Page II. I. 20. month, for year. 
 
 Pag. 15. 1. 6. dele (fee article USHER.) 
 
 The reader is alfo deflred to excufe a few othef^ 
 typographical errors j as the author could not con* 
 veniently attend the prefs.
 
 DIRECTIONS 
 
 / T O 
 
 Academy Keepers. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 TERMS. 
 
 SECT. i.~\7"OU are defirous of en- 
 JL gaging in the manage- 
 ment of an Academy. Are you in low 
 circumftances ? Are you a broken at- 
 torney, or excife-man ? A difbanded 
 Frenchman, or fuperannuated clerk ? 
 Offer your fervice for a trifling confide^ 
 ration 3 declaim on the roguery of re- 
 B quiring
 
 quiring large fums, and make yourfelf 
 amends in the inferior articles ; quills, 
 paper, ink, books; candles, fire, extra- 
 ordinary expences, taylors and fhoe- 
 maker's bills, are excellent items in aca- 
 demy-accounts. You may charge them 
 as amply as you pleafe, withaut injury 
 to your reputation. The expence in 
 books, paper, &c. is chearfully paid, 
 as proofs of a rapid progrefs. The 
 charge of candles, fire, and extraor- 
 dinary expences, as proofs of your in- 
 dulgence ; and no-body will fufpeft 
 you to be partner in your taylor's and 
 fhoe- maker's bills. This is an approved 
 rule, and practifed with fuccefs by many 
 of my acquaintance. 
 
 SECT. 2. But we will fuppofe you of 
 higher character, and better profpedt. 
 We will fuppofe you an emigrant from 
 fome northern univerfity, or a tuftleis 
 child of one of our own, and to have been 
 a confiderable time affiftant in fome fou- 
 them fchool. Twenty-five pounds is 
 
 the
 
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 the leaft you can afk. Nor are you to 
 neglect to avail yourfelf of the preceding 
 items j but deem it a general rule that 
 your extraordinary advantages are to bear 
 a dired: proportion to your ftated terms. 
 SECT. 3. If you have promifed to 
 confine your attention to a trifling num- 
 . ber ; by advertifing that one or two are 
 ftill wanting, or by decreafmg your 
 terms, attempt immediately to retract 
 this promife. Apply to your firft bene- 
 factors ; hope they will permit you to 
 accommodate a few pretty little matters, 
 fons of Mr. Such-a-one, who may be 
 of the greateft fervice to you. They 
 will not deny you ; they will confider it 
 as a proof of your riling reputation. 
 You are indebted for this judicious 
 rule to the late eminent Mr. Jerkham, 
 who died broken-hearted, as is fuppofed, 
 in confequence of the ridiculous appear- 
 ance he made in one of our late monthly 
 reviews. J mention this melancholy 
 circumftance, that you may avoid his 
 B 3 fate;
 
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 fate, and let your learning be known 
 only to your boys ; it will do you moft 
 fervice, be a proof of your modefty and 
 attention to your fchool. 
 
 SECT. 4. When advertifing for boys 
 does not anfvver, advertifements for fer- 
 vants may probably fucceed. The fol- 
 lowing is an approved copy. 
 
 Wanted at an academy near London 
 three domeftics ; 
 
 A compleat penman, accomptant, and 
 mathematician, with an undeniable cha- 
 racter ; 
 
 A fteady careful perfon capable of 
 teaching the Englim language gram- 
 matically, and willing to attend the chil- 
 dren to bed : 
 
 A cleanly fober wench to look after 
 the children's linnen, and do other oc- 
 cafional work : Enquire of Mr. Twitch, 
 broom-maker, in Kent-ftreet. 
 
 By properly publifhing advertifements 
 like this, you will feldom fail of attract- 
 ing the attention of the publick. 
 
 But
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 But you may want none of thefe fer- 
 vants. You have an eafy redrefs. Alk 
 the mathematician if he underftands 
 Englilli, the abecedenarian if he under- 
 ftands mathematics; upon thefe con- 
 ditions promife them each ten pounds a 
 year, (board, lodging, and warning) 
 with eighteen - penny pqrquifites, and 
 you are acquitted with credit ; as to the 
 wench, if me comes bare-foot, almoft 
 before the news-paper appears, rebuffs 
 of this kind are fo common, that you 
 may fay, without fufpicion, you are en- 
 gaged. 
 
 SECT. 5. If you are at any time de- 
 firous of enlarging your terms, expof- 
 tulate plentifully on your intended im- 
 provements, and the large ftipends your 
 affiftants require. Your expences are 
 extremely great, and the bufinefs above 
 meafure fatiguing ; you have been long 
 accuftomed to children, and are fond of 
 feeing them about you ; and indeed 
 otherwife the bujinefs would be infup- 
 portable. 
 
 C H A P.
 
 CHAP. II. 
 DIET. 
 
 AMONG the. firft articles enquired 
 after, both by parents and chil- 
 dren, are thofe of the table. You can- 
 not therefore be too early inftructed in 
 the defirable art of giving all reafonable 
 fatisfadion in this matter, at the leaft 
 poffible expence. 
 
 SECT. i. Remember then always, to 
 fee the fruit-bafket amongft your boys 
 before dinner. Fruit is leaf! prejudicial 
 to an empty ftomach ; and if the chil- 
 dren will indulge themfelves with bif- 
 cuit and gingerbread, who can help it. 
 
 SECT. 2. If your number of boys or 
 their allowances deferve not a fruit- 
 woman's attendance, your wife may pro- 
 perly enough engage in the office > it 
 it will prevent the boys from being 
 cheated, and be a proof of her humility. 
 
 The
 
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 The ufe of fome neighbouring 
 may alfe be permitted with caution ; it 
 is an indulgence which will not fail to 
 conciliate the affection of your leading 
 boys. 
 
 SECT. 3. If there be no confiderablc 
 parifh work-houfe near you, it will be 
 your intereft to fecure the ftale loaves 
 and neck-beef; the former is excellent 
 in boiled milk or plumb-pudding, the 
 latter in boulli for a Saturday's dinner. 
 The butchers and bakers you rnuft re- 
 member have been time immemorial 
 the beft academy-ticks. 
 
 SECT. 4. The worfe your firefh joints 
 are drelTed the better for you ; the boys 
 will eat the lefs, and it is always the 
 cook's fault. 
 
 SECT. 5. Whenever the boys find 
 fault with the quality of your meat, ap- 
 pear at the head of your table, declare 
 the extraordinary price you have given 
 for it, and call your fervants to witnefs 
 
 that
 
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 that you fent for the beft in the market. 
 Whoever replies, turn him away. 
 
 SECT. 6. I allow of no pies except a 
 little before the holidays. Delicacies and 
 dainties are not to be expecled in a 
 fchool. 
 
 SECT. 7. The lefs fait, vinegar, pep- 
 per, &c. at dinner upon the table, & 
 much the better 5 boys want no fuch 
 provocatives. 
 
 SECT. 8. If you oblige your boys to 
 eat all you fend them, it will prevent the 
 frequent return of their plates, and learn 
 them an excellent cuftom ; if not, what 
 they leave will make excellent hafhes, 
 and feem more indulgent : in this point 
 I find few who are agreed. 
 
 SECT. 9. If you arc afraid they will 
 cat more than yo have provided, fay 
 grace. 
 
 CHAP,
 
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 LODGING. 
 
 SECT, i . IT* E W inftruftions may fuf- 
 JL fice on this head. The 
 lighter the boys are covered, and the 
 harder the bed, the more natural and 
 more healthy. 
 
 SECT. 2. The fewer chamber-pots 
 the better; it will prevent the boys catch- 
 ing cold by rifmg in the night, and 
 make them unwilling to drink much 
 beer at fupper. 
 
 SECT. 3. The more you put in the 
 bed the better alfo -, it will endear them 
 to each other, and prevent their play- 
 ing wicked tricks. 
 
 SECT. 4. Lodge the great boys always 
 fartheft from you, it will prevent them 
 difltirbing you in the night. If they lie 
 near the maids, fq much the better ; the 
 maids may give you proper notice of 
 their behaviour. 
 
 C SECT.
 
 SECT. 5. Your ufher muft always be' 
 ftowed amongft the little boys, to pre- 
 vent them from tumbling out of bed, 
 and to help them in the night. 
 
 SECT. 6. If you allow the occafional 
 ufe of a clofe-ftool, let it be locked up 
 in the garret that they may not abufe it. 
 But I rather approve of their eafing 
 themfelves in fome corner of the room, 
 that they may have the lefs pleafure in 
 reforting thither in the day-time, and 
 tumbling the bed-clothes about; and that 
 their mothers, who always pay a vilit to 
 the bed- chambers, may be fenfible what 
 trouble you have with them. 
 
 SECT. 7. Let the beds be always to 
 be made, at the time of undrefling. Go- 
 ing to bed is a thing the boys diflike. 
 This little refpite, therefore, will pleafe 
 them mightily, and they will pleafe the 
 maids. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 RECREATION. 
 
 SECT. i. rip HE more holidays the 
 A better - y it will give the 
 boys an opportunity of feeding them- 
 felves at their own expence, and, by 
 tafking them well, you will prevent the 
 complaints of their parents. But the 
 fewer holidays you promife before-hand 
 the more prudent j it will prevent your 
 ufher from gadding abroad, 
 
 SECT. 2. Never give a holiday on the 
 day appointed for the entertainment of 
 your friend; 'you will have the fewer 
 interruptions, and a good excufe for b.e~ 
 ing abfent from your fchool. 
 
 SECT, 3. Give a holiday always on 
 public rejoicing-days j it will be con- 
 fidcred as a proof of your loyalty j and 
 let that day of the month on which your 
 predeceffor died, be always a feaft for 
 the boys ; it is a tribute due to his me- 
 mory, sz$*- 
 C % SECT,
 
 SECT. 4. Send your boys always on a 
 holiday to fee fomething or other in the 
 neighbourhood ; it will pleafe both them 
 and their parents, prevent their lurk- 
 ing about the pantry, and employ your 
 ufhers. 
 
 SECT. 5. Boys commonly endeavour 
 on thefe days to difpatch a letter or two 
 privately. It will be your bufinefs to 
 intercept them ; they may be negligent- 
 ly written ; there may be folecifms in 
 them, ormifreprefentations of fats, which 
 might be difpleafing to their friends. 
 
 C H A P. V. 
 DISCIPLINE. 
 
 SECT, i, T) Emember always to exer- 
 Jt\. cife your fjrft feverity on 
 popr people's children, and day-fcholars. 
 Thefirft floggings ape a perpetual flifgrace, 
 and it is but reafonable that they mould 
 >ear it ? by whom you are leafl profited. 
 
 SECT.
 
 ( '3 ) 
 
 SECT. 2. Never punim the favourite 
 of a family, if he have any younger bro- 
 thers. 
 
 SECT. 3. Boys who bear flogging beft 
 are commonly thofe who moft deferve 
 it. If four be accufed, therefore, he who 
 bears flogging beft is always in the 
 fault. 
 
 SECT. 4. If a father gives you full 
 power over his fon's pofteriors, be not 
 afraid to ufe it, but make him the fcape- 
 goat of the fchool as often as convenient. 
 Jn this, and many other rules, the reafons 
 ;are too obvious to be particularly no- 
 ticed. 
 
 SECT. 5. 'No good to be done with a 
 boy who has not a good opinion of his 
 matter. If a boy, therefore, accufes you, 
 .or your ufhers, of ignorance or incapa- 
 city, take the firft opportunity to expel 
 him, efpecially if he be clever, and likely 
 to make a progrefs, in which you may 
 jbe ill- qualified Jo accompany him. 
 
 . 6. Infolence to ufliers is to be 
 pun idied
 
 punimed with great caution. This will 
 beft maintain a proper distinction be- 
 tween you and them. 
 
 SECT. 7. If fome untouchable youth 
 happens to be detected in expreffing his 
 infolence, your wife, or the perfon he 
 has offended, muft beg him off. 
 
 SECT. 8. Severe difcipline is never to 
 be inflicted immediately before the 
 fchool breaks up, or very foon after the 
 return. 
 
 SECT. 9. Setting a maid upon her 
 head, or piffing upon a miftrefs's new 
 gown, is a flogging matter, no more -, it 
 might look like partiality. 
 
 SECT. 10. The beft punimment for 
 idlenefs is confinement and fhort com- 
 mons. 
 
 By an adherence to this rule you will 
 not endanger the childrens health -, you 
 will fave your victuals, expofe your 
 fcholars to fufficient difgrace, and give 
 them an opportunity of learning their 
 book. 
 
 CHAP,
 
 ( '5 ) 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 INSTRUCTION. 
 
 TH E infraction of youth yeu mufl 
 commit in a great meafure to your 
 ufhers; it is for this purpofe you employ 
 them, (fee article USHER.) But not to 
 omit any thing material, which may con- 
 cern you, take the following rules. 
 
 SECT. i. If your principal boys afk 
 too hard queftions, make it a rule never 
 to tell them; it would be excufmg them 
 from a neceflary part of their duty. Tell 
 them it is eafy enough, and fend them 
 back ; the more pains they take to ac- 
 quire their learning, the longer they will 
 retain it. 
 
 SECT. 2. If you be ever obliged ta 
 have a hard leflbn fud .to you, bufy 
 yourfelf in writing letters, or take an 
 occafional nap ; the boys will be glad 
 of it, and it may prevent their accufing 
 you of ignorance. 
 
 SECT.
 
 SECT. 3. Never explain a pafTage in 
 a difficult author; your fcholars will 
 hereafter have a greater pleafure in 
 making the difcovery themfelves. 
 
 SECT. 4. If you ever condefcend to 
 hear your head boys tell them of it ; it 
 will make them get their lefTon the 
 better, and thereby give you lefs trou- 
 ble. If they happen to meet with a ne 
 plus ultra, abufe them, and fend them 
 back ; if they grumble, flagellation is ne- 
 ceflary. 
 
 SECT. 5. If you fee a boy fent back 
 by an umer, and the boy cries, call him, 
 tinfeen by the ufher, hear him, and let 
 it pafs ; it will pleafe the boy mightily. 
 
 SECT. 6. Never let your boys get 
 too forward ; the longer they flay, the 
 longer they pay. I have known a dozen 
 boys of fix years Handing in an academy, 
 who neither knew the declenfion or 
 conjugations of their accidence, their 
 multiplication or pence table, or any 
 thing elfe befides, which they had been 
 
 fent
 
 ( '7 ) 
 
 fent to learn, and for the learning of 
 which, fome of them to my certain 
 knowledge had paid upwards of three 
 hundred pounds. What then ? the boys 
 are rather flow, and require time -, or a 
 little idle, and will, it is hoped, grow 
 more thoughtful as they grow up; or 
 your ufhers have neglected their duty ; 
 and you have therefore thought it ne- 
 ceffary to change them. 
 
 SECT. 7. In all kinds of Latin or 
 Greek exercifes it is beft to mark the 
 faults, and let the boys mend them, it 
 puts them on enquiring into the exact 
 meaning of the words they ufe, and will 
 make them more careful of committing 
 blunders. 
 
 SECT. 8. If your highefl attainments 
 be only fome fmall fmattering in the 
 Englifh language, and the command 
 of the pen, it were to be wifhed you 
 could imprefs upon the boys a higher opi- 
 nion of you than you deferve: and, for 
 this purpofe, I know nothing better than 
 D to
 
 to inform yourfelf of the merit of the dif- 
 ferent authors of the learned languages. 
 Declaim on this .fubject to your boys, 
 and order all their exercifes to be pub- 
 lickly fubmitted to your infpection re^- 
 gularly every evening. This was an in- 
 fallible rule with our friend Gerundivy 
 Leech, and he acquired an eafy fortune, 
 Jjas taken out his Dedimus for the coun- 
 ty of Wilts, and lives in great repute. 
 
 SECT. 9. If you are a DirTenter, or a 
 Roman Catholic, you will not fail to 
 make the. young gentlemen committed 
 to your care, fenfible of the truth of your 
 particular tenets ; it will prevent their 
 being bigots. 
 
 
 CHAP.
 
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 r,o: 3; 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 ADDRESS and BEHAVIOUR before 
 Parents. 
 
 SECT. i.TTTHEN a gentleman or 
 VV lady pays you a vifit, 
 run out, the more flovenly the better ; 
 it will mew your attention to bufinefs, 
 and a due fenfe of the honour they do 
 you. It would be proper alfo that your 
 wife hold the door open j your ufliers 
 be all ready to bow as they pafs j and 
 that your beft looking boys be called in- 
 to the parlour. 
 
 SECT. 2. If a parent unfortunately 
 call to fee a boy who has been juft whip- 
 ped, call the boy to you, and threaten, 
 if he promifes not to behave better, to 
 tell his parents; then carry him inta the 
 parlour, pat him upon the head; tell 
 them how prettily he reads, that he is. 
 fometimes in fault but you never tell, 
 s w,ill do fo no more, 
 
 E SECT,
 
 SECT. 3. If a fond mother come too 
 often to fee a favourite child, never fail 
 to tell her, how the child cries when me 
 is gone. 
 
 SECT. 4. Write always to minifters of 
 Hate, and your brethren of the Birch, 
 in Latin or Greek, and the more blun- 
 ders the better; the former will take 
 them for elegances which they have for- 
 got; and the latter which they never 
 knew. 
 
 SECT. 5. Never afk the parents or 
 friends of the boys to dine with you. 
 You live upon the fragments left by the 
 boys, and have nothing worth afking 
 them to ; it will be a proof of your fru- 
 gality, and they will the more readily 
 pay your demands. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 ACADEMY WIVES. 
 
 SECT. I. '"p HE propereft perfon is a 
 daughter or widow of 
 the trade, fuch a one is commonly beft 
 intruded in the myftery of the bufinefs, 
 beft able to conciliate the affe&ion of the 
 boys, and make moft of the children's 
 linen. 
 
 SECT. 2. If fuch a one cannot be had, 
 fome old maiden muft be fought for ; 
 me probably may have learnt the art of 
 frugality, and if peevim and proud, the 
 more defirable ; you will be liked the 
 better, it will preferve her alfo from be- 
 ing too familiar with the ufhers, and {he 
 will be more refpecled by people of 
 quality. 
 
 SECT. 3. Never, I befecch you, at- 
 tempt to marry a young woman of for- 
 tune or family. 
 
 SECT.
 
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 SECT. 4. Never allow your wife to 
 contradict you before the boys or pa- 
 rents. 
 
 SECT. 5. The older your wife the 
 better ; fhe will look more motherly, and 
 take more patiently fuch names as the 
 children may wantonly give her. 
 
 SECT. 6. Never let her be humble 
 enough to infpecl: the children's heads 3 it 
 will put her too much on a condition 
 with the fervants : and yet me mould not 
 be too proud to fell them ribbon, garters, 
 ftudds, gingerbread, &c. It is a neceflary 
 part of her duty. 
 
 SECT. 7. When you are abfent me 
 muft watch the ufhers, and fee that they 
 jwatch the boys, and cheat them not out 
 of their money or play- things : there is 
 &0 trufting any of them.. 
 
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 C H A P x
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 USHERS. 
 
 SECT. i. "V TEVER employ a man of 
 1.^1 abilities if you can help 
 it j he will fcarce ever fubmit to the drud- 
 gery of your bufinefs, or pay that defe- 
 rence to your authority, which you may 
 find neceflary. 
 
 SECT. 2. The molt deniable method 
 of procuring ufhersis by advertifements. 
 None will apply who are not in defperate 
 circumftances, and thefe are your men. 
 If they know little it is no great matter ; 
 they v/ill be the more diligent : and 
 mould the children deteft their igno- 
 rance, or the parents complain, you may 
 eafily difmifs them ; others fuch-like are 
 to be had ; and it will mew your friends 
 how defirous you are to oblige them. 
 
 SECT. 3. When yourufhers firftcome, 
 you muft endeavour to open their hearts 
 by kind treatment. Make yourfelf ac- 
 quainted
 
 quainted with their circumftances ; you 
 may then more judicioufly reduce them 
 to trammels. 
 
 SECT 4. It is not your intereft that 
 the ufhers be too intimate one with an- 
 other, or with the boys ; they may com- 
 municate their refpective obfervations ; 
 poifon the minds of your boys with in- 
 jurious reflections on your character; or 
 revolt, and make a confufion in your 
 fchool. 
 
 SECT. 5. If a fearch is to be made 
 after fome hoards of forbidden dainties, 
 the information muft always be declared 
 to come from an uiher ; it will preferve 
 the odium from you : but the feizure 
 muft be made by you or your wife; it 
 will afford you an agreeable repaft. 
 
 SECT. 6. If a boy befent home, whofc 
 parents are in low circumftances, the 
 umer is the man to accompany him : 
 he is the propereft perfon to inform the 
 parents what progrefs the boy makes : 
 and to fend your footman would be 
 
 making
 
 ..... 
 
 'making no diftinftion betwixt the chil- 
 dren of the poor and the rich. 
 
 SECT. 7. If a beggar appears at the 
 door, your ufher is the man to fend him 
 away, both becaufe he may be miftaken 
 for the matter of the houfe, and becaufe 
 he ought, whilft the boys are at play % 
 to be always at the door. 
 
 SECT. 8. If you fee an ufheF writing 
 a letter, or reading in fchool-time, fend 
 him a boy to teach ; it will mew your 
 regard to the welfare of your boys. 
 
 SECT. 9. Never let your ufhers have 
 money before-hand ; they may abfcond : 
 and you may as well feck a criminal in a 
 coal-mine, as an ufher in an academy. 
 
 SECT. 10. Never introduce an umer 
 into company; it will le/Ten your au- 
 thority x and he will undermine your 
 credit. 
 
 SECT. ii. Let them always breakfaft 
 
 with the; fervants, or in fome other 
 
 equally humble manner ; it will keep 
 
 t;hern. at a due diftance from you, and 
 
 make
 
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 make them the more thankful for what 
 little notice you may think proper to 
 take of them. 
 
 SECT. 12. If any of them diflike you, 
 and give you notice of their intentions 
 to leave you, let them go the firft pof- 
 fible opportunity -, it will prevent their 
 behaving awhile remarkably well, and 
 rendering their memory grateful to the 
 boys : it will alfo look as if fome quar- 
 rel had been the occafion of their abrupt 
 departure. 
 
 SECT. 13. Never fpeak well of an 
 ulher when he is gone, nor recommend 
 him to another place ; if bad he does 
 not defer ve it -, if good, it is your intereft 
 to keep him as long as you can, and 
 never to fuppofe or allow him good for 
 any thing after he is gone. 
 
 SECT. 1 5. If an ufher have it in his 
 power tp make advantages of his leifure- 
 hours, this muft be carefully denied 
 him ; it will make him independent. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. X. 
 OTHER SERVANTS. 
 
 HIS is a point of no great confe- 
 quence. 
 
 SECT. i. They muft be able to live 
 iipon fcraps, and lie three in a bed. If 
 you give them no wages it will oblige 
 
 them to look fhafp, and be upon good 
 
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 terms with the boys. 
 
 SECT. 2. It will always be your in- 
 tereft to have a quarrel between i the 
 maids and the umers ; it will prevent 
 the latter from having more meat and 
 drink than they are allowed. 
 
 SECT. 3. If your maids arc taken 
 from taverns or inns fo much the better; 
 they will bear with lefs reluctance the 
 innocent freedoms of the boys. Many 
 other rules might be added- on this head, 
 but it is needlefs ; if you adhere ftridtly 
 to thofe that I have already prefcribed, 
 you will not fail of fuccefs ; and indeed 
 
 I am
 
 I am rather afraid you will think them 
 already too many and too plain, as well . 
 as object to this method of conveyance. 
 To which I can only anfwer, that I could 
 think of no other fo generally ufeful 3 and 
 that notwithstanding fome few cautious 
 parents, or guardians, may fee more from 
 it than might be wifhed; you, I am, 
 fenfible, will remember the rules, when 
 ftiey mall have long forgotten for what 
 good purpofes they were given, 
 
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