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Wash the Glaffes with your own Water, to fave your Master's Salt.

When any Salt is spilled on the Table, do not let it be loft, but when Dinner is done, fold up the Table-cloth with the Salt in it, then shake the Salt out into the Salt-cellar to ferve next Day: But the shortest and fureft Way, is, when you remove the Cloth, to wrap the Knives, Forks, Spoons, Salt-cellars, broken Bread, and Scraps of Meat altogether in the Table-cloth, by which you will be fure to lose nothing, unyou think it better to shake them out of the Window amongst the Beggars, that they may with more Convenience eat the Scraps.

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Leave the Dregs of Ale, Wine, and other Liquors in the Bottles: To rince them is but Lofs of Time, fince all will be done at once in a general Washing; and you will have a better Excufe for breaking them.

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If Mafter hath many mufty, or very foul and crufted Bottles, I advise you in point of Confcience, that those may be the first you truck at the next Ale-house for Ale or Brandy.

When a Meffage is fent to your Mafter, be kind to your Brother-fervant who bringeth it; give him the best Liquor in your keeping, for your Master's Honour; and with the first Opportunity he will do the fame to you.

After Supper, if it be dark carry your Plate and China together in the fame Basket, to fave Candle-light,

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Candle-light, for you know your Pantry well enough to put them up in the Dark,

When Company is expected at Dinner, or in the Evenings, be fure to be abroad, that nothing may be got which is under your Key, by which your Mafter will fave his Liquor, and not wear out his Plate.

I come now to a moft important Part of your Oeconomy, the bottling of a Hogfhead of Wine, wherein I recommend three Virtues, Cleanlinefs, Frugality, and brotherly Love.. Let your Corks be of the longest Kind you can get; which will fave fome Wine in the Neck of eve ry Bottle: As to your Bottles, chufe the smalleft you can find, which will increase the Num ber of Dozens, and please your Mafter; for a Bottle of Wine is always a Bottle Wine, whether it hold more or lefs; and if your Mafter hath his proper Number of Dozens, he cannot complain.

Every Bottle must be first rinced with Wine, for fear of any Moisture left in the Washing fome out of mistaken Thrift will rince a Dozen Bottles with the fame Wine; but I would ad vise you, for more Caution, to change the Wine at every fecond Bottle; a Jill may be enough, Have Bottles ready by to fave it; and it will be a good Perquifite, either to fell or drink with the Cook.

Never draw your Hogfhead too low; nor tilt it for fear of disturbing the Liquor. When it beginneth to run flow, and before the Wine groweth cloudy, fhake the Hogfhead, and carry

a Glafs of it to your Mafter, who will praise you for your Difcretion, and give you all the rest as a Perquifite of your Place: You may tilt the Hogfhead, the next Day, and in a Fortnight get a Dozen or two of good clear Wine, to dif pofe of as you please.

In bottling Wine, fill your Mouth full of Corks, together with a large Plug of Tobacco, which will give the Wine the true Tafte of the Weed, fo delightful to all good Judges in drinking.

When you are ordered to decant a fufpicious Bottle, if a Pint be out, give your Hand a dexterous Shake, and thew it in a Glafs, that it beginneth to be muddy.

When a Hogfhead of Wine or any other Liquor is to be bottled off, wafh your Bottles immediately before you begin; but, be fure not to drain them; by which good Management your Mafter will fave fome Gallons in every Hogfhead.

This is the Time that in Honour to your Mafter, you ought to fhew your Kindness to your Fellow fervants, andefpecially to the Cook; what fignify a few Flaggons out of a whole Hog head? But make them drunk in your Prefence, for fear they fhould be given to other Folks, and fo your Mafter be wronged: But, advife them, if they get drunk, to go to Bed, and leave Word they are fick, which laft Caution I would have all the Servants observe, both Male and Female

If your Mafter finds the Hogfhead to fall fhort of his Expectation, what is plainer, than that the Veffel leaked; that the Wine-Cooper had not filled it in proper Time; that the Merchant cheated him with a Hogfhead be low the common Measure?

When you are to get Water on for Tea, after Dinner, (which in many Families is Part of your Office) to fave Firing, and to make more Hafte, pour it into the Tea-pot, from the Pot where Cabbage or Fish have been boiling, which will make it much wholefomer, by curing the acid and corroding Quality of the Tea.

Be faving of your Candles; and let thofe in the Sconces, the Hall, the Stairs, and in the Lanthorn, burn down into the Sockets, until they go out of themfelves; for which your Master and Lady will commend your Thrifti ness, as foon as they smell the Snuff.

When you clean your Plate, leave the Whiting plainly to be feen in all the Chinks, for fear your Lady fhould not believe you had cleaned it,

If a Gentleman leaveth his Snuff-box, or Toothpick-cafe, on the Table, after Dinner, and goeth away, look upon it as Part of your Vails; for fo it is allowed by all Servants, and you do no Wrong to your Master or Lady. If you ferve a Country 'Squire; when Gentlemen and Ladies come to dine at your House, never fail to make their Servants drunk, and efpecially the Coachman, for the Honour of

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your Master; to whom, in all your Actions, you must have a fpecial Regard, as being the beft Judge: For, the Honour of every Family is depofited in the Hands of the Cook, the Butler, and the Groom, as I fhall hereafter demonftrate.

Snuff the Candles, at Supper, as they stand on the Table, which is much the fecureft Way; because, if the burning Snuff happeneth to get out of the Snuffers, you have a Chance that it may fall into a Dish of Soup, Sack-poffet, Rice-milk, or the like, where it will be immediately extinguished with very little Stink..

When you have fnuffed the Candles, always leave the Snuffers open; for then the Snuff will of itself burn away to Afhes, and cannot fall out and dirty the Table, when you fnuff the Candles again.

That the Salt may lie fmooth in the Saltcellar, prefs it down with your moist Palm.

When a Gentleman is going away, after dining with your Mafter, be sure to stand full in his View, and follow him to the Door, and, as you have Opportunity, look full in his Face, perhaps it may bring you a Shilling; but, if the Gentleman hath lain there a Night, get the Cook, the Houfe-maid, the Stable-men, the Scullion, and the Gardener, to accompany you, and to ftand in his Way to the Hall, in a Line on each Side him: If the Gentleman performeth