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material on the place necessary for spontaneous 

 combustion, or a race riot, and really it is an inter- 

 national mixture, much like the general population 

 and compounded by circumstances alone. 



Tim, driver and stabjeman, Scotch and violently 

 of the Dissenting Church. 



Bertie, Danish, general useful, religion probably 

 lacking. 



Martha Corkle, cook pro tern., awaiting develop- 

 ments, English, aggressively of the Established 

 Church. 



Delia, waitress and office maid, Irish- American, 

 violently Roman Catholic. 



Elizabeth (cook until Martha's advent), laundry 

 and dairymaid pro tern., native and Methodist. 



Martha Corkle, before whom the necessity of 

 tolerance of religious opinion and race was men- 

 tioned, came to me this morning, full of dignity 

 and responsibility, and said, 



" Mrs. Evan " (she never accords me my last 

 name, that honour belonging to the portly mother of 

 ten and wife of our elder brother, the .vicar), " I 

 hope that you do not think I shall demean myself 

 by taking notice of opinions held in my kitchen or 

 outside ; that is unless things are disrespected 

 which are my vitals, though of course it would 



