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on their fair name for employment. To refuse countenance to the evil, and to
encourage the good servant, are actions due to society at large; and such as are
honest, frugal, and attentive to their duties, should be liberally rewarded,
which would encourage merit, and inspire servants with zeal to acquit
themselves.
It may be proper to observe that a retributive justice usually marks persons in
that station sooner or later even in this world. The extravagant and idle in
servitude, are ill prepared for the industry and sobriety on which their own
future welfare so essentially depends. Their faults, and the attendant
punishment come home when they have children of their own; and sometimes much
sooner. They will see their own folly and wickedness perpetuated in their
offspring, whom they must not expect to be better than the example and
instruction given by themselves.
It was the observation of a sensible and experienced woman, that she could
always read the fate of her servants who married; those who had been faithful
and industrious in her service, continued their good habits in their own
families, and became respectable members of the community:--those who were the
contrary, never were successful, and not unfrequently were reduced to the
parish.
A proper quantity of household articles should be always ready, and more bought
in before the others be consumed, to prevent inconvenience, especially in the
country.
A bill of parcels and receipt should be required, even if the money be paid at
the time of purchase; and, to
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