Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-15

surely you can have no objection. Does
the man interfere with your"
ION no, sir, quite the contrary
Am to understand, then, that You
interfere with himp"
Good gracious me, sir let him do
just what he likes. lie rolls his eyes ut
me if say word; and he is SO civil
and good-natured, that | have not tho
heart to be angry with him. But then,
sir, it's not what I've been used to. A
cooks cook and kitchens a kitchen,
and like mine TO myself"
Then am afraid, Mrs. Coombes, we
must accept your notice." said the doc
tor, taking out his pocket-book; 80 We
will say from this day month. Mrs.
Allenby is very sorry-so am ]. You
are an excellent servant, but you share,
with many Of your class, the stupid idea
that the kitchen is entirely your own,
and anyone else who enters does 60 on
suiferance. You should understand
that the kitchen is that part of the house
IN which you do your work as you may
nc ordered, and, so that you are not un-
duly interfered with, you have no right
to object to anyone who may lie sent
there or permitted there by your mis-
tress. You may go, Mrs. Coomhes,"
and he touched the bell: I'VE want the
houSemaid now"
Mrs. Coomhes decendcd, crestfallen,
! hut more indignant than ever, half in
clinCd 10 pack up her box and go there
and then. inst to let them see how they
| would get along without her.
IF ii had been a real MASTER" she
| told the hOusem maid. II would not have
stood il: hut them doctors have got o
way of speaking you can't answer. y
| pretty pass things have come to, when
a respectable married cook cannot call
| her Kitchen her own. It's Your turn
| now. Martha that bel was for you
and | hope YOU Il speak Nour mind. as |
did-at least. meant to. " she added to
| herselt-"but there's 10 saving any
| thing to them doctors. hate doctors.
Look at MI. Parker there's pretty
| doctor for you. with his bread and milk
| for breakfast and cruel Of a night,
which lie said would be better than my
beer for me. | should like TO see him
| brcading and milking and eruelling me;
and then getting little too much every
| now and then, and being i'll. as lie is, l
| can tell him
Miss Martha Brown, the housemaid,
| with much less to say. had more deter
mination, and perhaps more to complain
Of than Mrs. Coombes. Honestly. she
did not like the eccentric lodger; she
did not like his man; and she objected
| entirely to their outlandish way. II
once lived in a house where there was n
| black woman she told the cook; they
| told me she was hare or yah.-I
| don't know which; but the first time
saw her | nearly had fit, and she was
| like Sin-sauce here, creeping about the
| kitchen and the nursery. waking and
rousing the children; it made ire sick.
| told them if they would let Ice. go,
| they might give my wages to the hare.
| had a young man then, and I've got
| the same young man now-one that
means me true and honorable, and
would marry me tomorrow if liked,
SO I'm independent"
In this frame of mind Miss Brown
went upstairs, very indignant at being
"sent for and III no disposition to DO
| ''carpeted." She was nicc-looking,
well-built girl with pair of bright
black eyes which suggested more sauci-
ness than she ever INDUCED in. II
know my place" she had said, land |
keep il. and ! don'ttake no interference
| from nobody"
| Your mistress tells me YOU are not
satisfied with your situationy" DR..
Hyde began. feeling that he bad a more
| difficult task here, and not d little amaz-
ed by the girls perfectly respectful and
vet independent bearing.
II never said SO, sir
"Perhaps you will kindly tell me what
you did say he said, slightly at a loss,
for in truth the girl never said 50 in
| words.
| II said nothing, sir. that wanted to
| be repeated in words. If | had not been
satisfied, | should have given q month
and left properly; and l do not object
to Mr.. Sinsom, because his skin is not
the color I've been accustomed to-
We can none of us help our Affections.
and it is not for me TO say anything
about the old gentleman for granting
and grumbling and swearing. though
he might do it in proper English like q
Nni'o pu' 7 ~ w liho iiiaii 10 40
life ever was helped to make the be-
u py ",dtoI i ptu"i !. iii''is'
/. ""o 'ilii1oC 1li.oo'loIc 'iot 70 i"ugn'
qulte Iiiipoo'loio iio' W ouliiei 'Ne mouse,
maui lhu'si"'ioh was 80 honest ailo
SINCERE. 49,.
i was never before IN my He tod
tiiaI ald not Know now 70 make a gen
.lelnaH peu properly she went on;
ana 10 See Inc way ne makes II Ia
enough 10 drive any Christian woman
out OF her senScS-pNnchih2 here and
Pul!lhg mere boiidln& up q niue at tL'
ioot, ana what he calls eleyating Tho
mead WI doh Know what IT looks
like. How any Christian can sleep il
potherS Inc ehlirely'
MT Barker is an invalid" sale
d. HYDE, quietly, "and the man under
stands him,