... morning after breakfast the young lady and Mist Hum, a most amiable young lady of sixteen, took down gun which hung up in the parlour, not having the slightest idea the time that it was loaded. Just they did so, the second eldest brother, James Hum, aged eighteen ...

... labours and self-denial we find the cheerful fire blazing in the tidy breakfast parlour when we find our way down stairs. That same apartment looked cheerless enough when the hot maid entered it two hours ago. It is sad when you are lying in bed of a morning ...

... the SOUTHERN RETORT UR, .JURY 7, 18r,*>. HIE OLD MAID, ‘Mamma, I do wonder,’said Mary Arlington, ‘wbat you see in Miss I.ncy Fisher to like so much ? You seem to prefer her to much more agreeable people. It does seem strange. Why, the other day, when ...

... eye, I'm against Elizabeth ; but Pm not tor tlem Mary.” Tie anp tHe Partrrrc —A dog, named | Wel « ge, | cour n, was an old parlour favonrite, when a partr ated in but swering to the name of Bill, became also domestic some danger in plac them | bust the ...

... rules in vogue settling how much butter the farmer must give his men and maids daily. During the fishing season each man reeeives 3} Ib.; at ordinary times the man has 2} the maid half that quantity. The use of meat, however, appears to be limited. he ...

... Authority. Selkirk, September 18, 1866. GQ ERVANTS WANTED. WANTED, at Martinuas NEXT, & HOUSE and I. AUNDRY MAID. Also. an Active, Tidy GIRL as TABLE-MAID. Apply at the Office of this Paper. — NTED IMMEDIATELY, & n Active, Well-Educated LAD asan A PPREN- TICE ...

... place beside her lord, it ia not at the head, but on one of the lower seats. In fact, her life does not seem to lie in the parlour and the dining-room, much in the nursery, the kitchen, the laundry, and the fruit shed. The grace, the play, the freedom a ...

... —Upon tho great question of Servantgalism, Mrs Housewife has favoured us with this anecdote. She had advertised for a parlour-maid, and a young woman deep mourning came to see about the pla c. lleraccount of herself was quite satisfactory, and it was ...

... tread, nor to the children's riot ; Put now the carpets all are up, and from the staircase top The mistress calls to man and maid to wield the broom and mop. Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms, tho house but now presented, Wherein dwelt, nor dreamed ...

... WANTED, at Whitsitndat, Experienced KITCHEN-MAID. Apply to Mr Scott, Ladhope. TUESDAY, 9th curt., being the Anniversary of the PRINCE of WALES' MARRIAGE, will observed by the BANKS here as a HOLIDAY. Selkirk, 3d March. 1869. NOTICE. A MEETING of the MEMBERS ...

... HOUSEMAID for a MANSE,. Apply at the Southern Reporter Office. ANTED, at the Trem of Wurrsexpay, an W Experienced HOUSE and TABLE | MAID. | —— Apply at the Southern Reporter Ottice. / ) TANTED, at a MARRIED \ MAN to take charge of a Pair of Horses, a Cow, and ...

... the American grammarian, paid to have resided for the apace two-and-twenty years in one front parlour, without one* going out, attended upon by a kiudly old maid enamoured of bis participles and his preterpluperfects, living chiefly boiled mutton and turnips ...