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Hints to Servants:

Hints to Servants:

by John Jones

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Author
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Title
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
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Household employees -- Poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46760
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46760
Release Date
September 3, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.HINTS TO SERVANTS:
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.PREFACE, ADDRESSED TO ALL MY FELLOW-SERVANTS.
  5. 5.CONTENTS.
  6. 6.THE BUTLER.
  7. 7.THE COOK.
  8. 8.THE VALET.
  9. 9.THE WAITING-WOMAN.
  10. 10.THE FOOTMAN.
  11. 11.THE HOUSEKEEPER. — THE CHAMBERMAID.
  12. 12.THE PORTER.
  13. 13.THE HOUSEMAID.
  14. 14.THE STEWARD.
  15. 15.THE GROOM.
  16. 16.THE COACHMAN.
  17. 17.THE NURSERY MAID.
  18. 18.THE DAIRY-MAID.
  19. 19.THE WET NURSE.
  20. 20.THE LAUNDRESS.
  21. 21.THE GOVERNESS.
  22. 22.A FEW RULES, WHICH CONCERN ALL SERVANTS IN GENERAL.

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