Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-11
No. S7

nifty often gives way to alscrity, which, in turn, imposes the highest honors. For in stance, above the clamor of morning bells will be heard such startling exclamations as: "Dunraven, there's yer mans bellln Marlborough, be lively now" Man chester, yer or boys moving" or, 'Tweedmouth, yer vally wants ter groom yep
 Besides the thirty to forty servants em- ployed about the household and stables. the largest establishments require an equal number out of doors in various capacities about the demesnes First there is the 'agent" who has general charge of the es- tate, indeed often the entire control of the property. Frequently with him are half dozen accountants and clerks The next man below him is the bailiff. His pro- vince is to look after the home farm and cattle. This is no sinecure, for on some of the greatest estates farming and grazing are conducted on a large scale: and this entirely exclusive of the fancy farming and gardening in which nearly every one of the nobility indulges- Sometimes en- closed by the inner walls surrounding the hall itself, though oftener at some little distance away in well-ordered arrange ment, will be found out-buildings, graner- ies, machinery storage houses, mill-houses where grain is threshed, logs are sawed and feed is ground by steam, and covered enclosures for young stock, in number and capaciousness quite surprising to even one accustomed to the provision for the same by the most noted American farm CTS. A host of hangeIs-on find lazy em- ployment here. Then upon 8 denesne or several thousand acres there will be s head gamekeeper who will be allowed A dozen men to assist him in breeding. and caring for, the game and in protecting it from the inroads of poachers- Some of the finest forests in the world are upon these estates. Each requires head fores- ter with half dozen men under him New trees are being constantly planted. Two heavy growths are thinned out. Ev- cry sound tree-trunk is sold to be cut in deals; every unsound one finds ready sale for fuel. If river runs through de mesne, several men are required for con stantly beautifying its banks and keeping the poschers away from its fish. The roads and driveways of a fine demesne re- quire very great attention. Then there is a master sawyer and his men for cutting posts, for repairing gates and fences. There are painters, glaZiers, carpenters, a
 number of whom are kept in service, and
 busy, the year round. The head gardener
 requires several assistants. And, if a
 guest, your coachman's call of 'EGatei"-
 ''Gate," will, in ride about an ordinary estate, bring to the lodge gates at different entrances fully half dozen bronzed old lodgekeepers from out of flower embedded, ivy-covered lodges. Every one of these are army 'pensiorers;" heroes bold, at their British army pension and ten pounds a year, whose lives fade out here in these | shadowy hooks among the hares and
 pheassnts with perhaps one gate call and a pot of beer day to keep their scattering | useless wits together.
 In England servants are precisely what | ten centuries of masters have wished them | to be. English servants in America are | miserable beings, giving the worst of ser | vice. They are outside of England; they
 have lost the pose and poise of their rock
 rooted home regime; while they are be
 wildered by the eccentricities of many of our amateur nobility who import them,
 who will require some little time 10 accus-
 tom themselves to the attentions of any
 manner of servants.
 | EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.