Sect. 7. If some untouchable youth happens to be detected in expressing his insolence, your wife, or the person he has offended, must beg him off.
Sect. 8. Severe discipline is never to be inflicted immediately before the school breaks up, or very soon after the return.
Sect. 9. Setting a maid upon her head, or pissing upon a mistress's new gown, is a flogging matter, no more; it might look like partiality.
Sect. 10. The best punishment for idleness is confinement and short commons.
By an adherence to this rule you will not endanger the children's health; you will save your victuals, expose your scholars to sufficient disgrace, and give them an opportunity of learning their book.
CHAP. VI.
INSTRUCTION.
The instruction of youth you must commit in a great measure to your ushers; it is for this purpose you employ them, (see article Usher.) But not to omit any thing material, which may concern you, take the following rules.
Sect. 1. If your principal boys ask too hard questions, make it a rule never to tell them; it would be excusing them from a necessary part of their duty. Tell them it is easy enough, and send them back; the more pains they take to acquire their learning, the longer they will retain it.