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seem more homelike here to him. In this coun- 

 try, unless it is a great household of many men 

 and maids, we do not put one in authority over the 

 others, for the mistress is the housekeeper. 



"You are the cook, and it is your place to be 

 motherly and make the kitchen pleasant to the 

 others who are younger and have not the advan- 

 tage of your training ; but if they make you dis- 

 comfort that you cannot avoid, tell me, and I will 

 speak to them. What was the trouble to-day ? " 



" Tea, Mrs. Evan, tea and pins on my pastry 

 board. Not but what the allowance is liberal 

 enough and to spare for the extra cup that it 

 makes a body feel homelike to draw when they so 

 likes, but the quality. I stand by English break- 

 fast as the wholesomest and most tasty, Eliza and 

 Delia prefers rank oolong, which I hold puckers 

 the stomach and coppers it. 



"This morning you wrote the order for the 

 grocer for so much tea, at so much a pound weight, 

 without mention of the kind. I tells him break- 

 fast, Delia says oolong. When I disputes her 

 right, she says that two wants it, and over here 

 the majority rules! and I want to know must I 

 have my inwards coppered or drop tea?" 



The situation was both comical and pathetic, for 



