The following few extracts will give an idea of the work--
"Rules that concern all servants in general--When your master or
lady calls a servant by name, if that servant be not in the way,
none of you are to answer, for then there will be no end of
drudgery; and masters themselves allow that if a servant comes,
when he is called, it is sufficient.
"When you have done a fault, be always pert and insolent, and
behave yourself as if you were the injured person; this will
immediately put your master or lady off their mettle.
"The cook, the butler, the groom, the market-man, and every other
servant, who is concerned in the expenses of the family, should act
as if his whole master's estate ought to be applied to that
peculiar business. For instance, if the cook computes his master's
estate to be a thousand pounds a year, he reasonably concludes that
a thousand pounds a year will afford meat enough, and therefore he
need not be sparing; the butler makes the same judgment; so may
the groom and the coachman, and thus every branch of expense will
be filled to your master's honour.
"Take all tradesmen's parts against your master, and when you are
sent to buy anything, never offer to cheapen it, but generously pay
the full demand.
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