Identifier: hintstoservants00lond (find matches)
Title: Hints to servants..
Year: 1843 (1840s)
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Publisher: Londn
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oweer the deil may angle, In his * right mind no man would dangle ; Or, Monomania far away, Have a clear right to Botny Bay; For Ive no trouble in believing A Monomania for thieving ! What fee, then, shall that Counsel grace, Wholl fairly make out such a i case ? Can such * opinion eer be bought ? Im quite * transported at the thought! Let sober Judges, then, give way, And let Mad-doctors have the sway ! Let all things (for a time) be shown As only right when upside down! 50 HINTS TO SERVANTS. Yet while these c epochs intervene, Well may we cry, God save our Queen ! Now call me Whig, or call me Tory,Wise rulers all, I yet implore ye,Some better safeguard may be knownBoth for the people and the throne;For though no Radical, most sureI grudge the Hangmans sinecure! THE HOUSEKEEPER. A favrite Footman you must have,Always the most tit-bits to save;Watchful for something none the worse/Or untouchd from the second course,It doesnt matter what precisely,—You and the Steward cook it nicely.
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51 THE CHAMBERMAID. Youve more importance than the Housemaid,As living where theres greater fuss made,—A vastly more important clatterThan where they only keep the latter.Youve nought to do but up stairs clamber,Down stairs, and in my ladys chamber; Take vails of all the visitors,And chat with all inquisitors ;And whilst a secrets left remaining,Youre always vastly entertaining. The Coachman is your usual lover,Till you can coax the Footman over;Who sometimes helps you in fatigue,But always in a nice intrigue. The worst mishap that comes to passIs when you break a looking-glass; 52 HINTS TO SERVANTS. For could invention stretch like leather, You neer can * jine the bits together. But still excuses may be had,— Ill tell you one that shant be bad; The girl, youll say, deserved a pension, Although it failed, for the invention. The glass she smashes all to shivers, And frets and fumes, and quakes and quivers To think—whichever way to view it— How in the world should she git throug

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