FINE DRESSMAKER, A POOR HOUSEKEEPER. 51 



on as soon as ever she heard the other 

 gardener was going. Nobody seemed hap- 

 pier than she was when she came late in the 

 evening, and saw us all settled in comfort- 

 ably again; and then she told us how it 

 was the gardener left. He was a very re- 

 spectable young man, and came from a good 

 place; but he had married a fine -looking 

 young woman, who had been brought up to 

 the dressmaking. Her mother, like a foolish 

 woman, instead of teaching her how to clean 

 house, cook, and so on, and getting her into 

 a respectable family, said her daughter should 

 never be a slave, and gave her too much her 

 own way. Well, when she was married and 

 had two or three children, she made a poor 

 slovenly housekeeper, and was very untidy 

 in herself. On Sundays she made a good 

 show, but on week-days she was down at 

 heel, and her clothes hung about her as if 

 she had been dragged through the bushes; 

 and so you may guess how the garden-room 

 was kept. A good deal of fault was found 

 at its being so dirty and dusty ; but she 

 wouldn't bear speaking to, and at last per- 

 suaded her husband to give up his place, 

 and take a bit of land near a neighbouring 



