WAS I to write a volume upon this fubject, I could still bring forward inftances to recommend this falutary practice. Who ever faw a family well conducted where method was a ftranger? A friend of mine, who is a man of folid understanding, has that peculiar attention to order amongst his domeftics, that, go when you will, you never fee the leaft buftle or confufion. All goes on like a well-constructed piece of machinery. No bickering is heard amongst the servants; because their bufinefs is feparate, and want of employ never occafions interruption arifing from idlenefs. Go and stay with my friend by the imonth together, and you never hear B 3 him

him storming at, or angry with, his fervants. He takes his ufual rounds to see that all perform their refpective duties, which are rigidly attended to, because the neglect cannot escape the eye of the mafter. Has he occafion to rebuke, his accent is mild, yet firm; uniformly fteady, and having judgment never to find fault without reafon, he is implicitly obeyed.

To what then is he indebted for the comforts he experiences in the excellent plan he has adopted ? Some will fay, perhaps to his good understanding and temper. This I deny, for these alone could not produce the picture I have drawn. It

is method, that enables all his fervants to perform their work with fo much eafe to themfelves, and comfort to thofe around them: it is the common parent of uniformity and regularity, it has also amongst its offspring plan and confiftency, and wherever it appears diforder is banifhed, as it can no more exift where method prevails, than the hoar-froft on the bough, when the rays of the fun are confpicuous

above the horizon.

I HAVE another friend, who is a good-natured, but a paffionate man (a very common character); the manners of whofe family form a ftriking contraft to the other.

PAY a morning vifit to this gentleman, and, nine times out of ten, although his establishment is large, there is not one out of all his numerous fervants ready to announce you; and you will stand, perhaps, shivering in the rain or cold, till at length, after hearing the parlourbell ring for fome minutes violently, you are admitted by the fcullion in a greafy garb. My friend exhausted by the oaths he has fworn, and the paffion he is in, and for which he begs your pardon, takes you by the hand, obferving, at the fame time, that no man was ever ferved by fuch a set of d-d fcoundrels as he is! and then vociferously cries out-Who's there?

THE

THE butler now makes his appearance, and fays, Sir, you fent me to the post-house, and I am <but this moment returned."

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who was

* Where is William?' Sir, you fent him to enquire after the health of Mrs. brought-to-bed yesterday.' 'Well, but where is the boy?' Sir, he is gone to air the pointers, because you sent the game-keeper .4 out with the fick horfe to the "farrier.' 'Well, well, leave the room.' Thus does my poor friend for ever harrass himfelf, injure his temper, and diftrefs all his intimates, when, could he be convinced of it, the fault is entirely It is the mafter of a fa

his own.