20 LIKE BEGETS LIKE. 



told me to go to the butler, and have my 

 breakfast in the servants' hall. It was a 

 hall to the one I 'd left ; for though I never 

 eat in that one, I knew those that did by 

 heart, and pleased enough I was to see the 

 difference. I don't mean that my new ac- 

 quaintances were extraordinary, not a bit 

 of it ; only there was something about 'em 

 that made you feel comfortable, and they 

 had no stupid airs. 



Now here's another thing that's no rid- 

 dle, and yet I'll set it for an answer. How 

 do you account for some hall -porters and 

 livery and other servants being so saucy to 

 decent people in some places, when in 

 others, ay, and very often where there's 

 real rank too, all the servants are so civil 

 and respectful? I've seen so much of > this, 

 that let me see the servants, and I'll tell 

 you what the masters and mistresses are 

 without seeing them. 



I soon got to work ; and the weather 

 being bad, and the squire (this was squire 

 as well as the last) not able to get out, I 

 had a good chance to alter things a little. 

 I began upon the greenhouse washed the 

 glass and paint- work outside : this made a 



