A good master well served a brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices of a good servant in every kind of servitude : and of the methods that should be taken by the heads of a family, to obtain such a servant / by Cotton Mather.

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  by: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Published: (1696)
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