A civil note is sent to the master; or a respectable member of the committee calls on him, and urges him to redress the grievance, but always in kind and civil terms.

The master generally assents: experience has taught him it is his wisest course.

But if he refuses, we are bound to report the refusal to a larger committee, and sometimes a letter emanates from them, reminding the master that he has been a loser before by acts of injustice, and hinting that he may be a loser again.

I do not quite approve this form of communication.

But certainly it has often prevented the mischief from spreading further.