Hints to Servants / Being a Poetical and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated "Directions to Servants" |
PREFACE, ADDRESSED TO ALL MY FELLOW-SERVANTS. CONTENTS. THE BUTLER. THE COOK. THE VALET. THE WAITING-WOMAN. THE FOOTMAN. THE HOUSEKEEPER. THE CHAMBERMAID. THE PORTER. THE HOUSEMAID. THE STEWARD. THE GROOM. THE COACHMAN. THE NURSERY MAID. THE DAIRY-MAID. THE WET NURSE. THE LAUNDRESS. THE GOVERNESS. A FEW RULES, WHICH CONCERN ALL SERVANTS IN GENERAL.
HINTS TO SERVANTS: BEING A POETICAL AND MODERNISED VERSION OF DEAN SWIFT'S CELEBRATED "DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS;" IN WHICH SOMETHING IS ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT, BUT THOSE PASSAGES ARE OMITTED WHICH CANNOT WITH PROPRIETY BE READ ALOUD IN A KITCHEN. BY AN UPPER SERVANT.
"Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by Ridicule alone!" POPE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TWELVE ORIGINAL DESIGNS, BY KENNY MEADOWS, ENGRAVED BY JOHN JACKSON.
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