INTRODUCTION. 



This little treatise is neither intended for 

 the mere cottager nor for persons of large 

 fortune, but for those ladies in the middle 

 ranks of life who study healthful domestic 

 economy either for the pleasure or the profit 

 which it affords ; though, in saying this, we 

 may justly add — that a cottage housewife 

 might gather useful hints from its contents, 

 and that a duchess would lose nothing by its 

 perusal. We, indeed, take pride in stating 

 that her Majesty — with that taste for do- 

 mestic pleasures which forms a distinguished 

 feature in feminine amiability — has caused 

 a poultry-yard and dairy to be erected for 

 the amusement of herself and the royal 

 children. 



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