performeth handsomely, it will do him Honour, and coft your Mafter nothing.

You need not wipe your Knife to cut Bread for the Table, becaufe, in cutting a Slice or two, it will wipe itself.

Put your Finger into every Bottle, to feel whether it be full, which is the fureft Way; for Feeling hath no Fellow.

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When you go down to the Cellar to draw Ale or Small-beer, take care to obferve directly the following Method: Hold the Veffel be tween the Finger and Thumb of your right Hand, with the Palm upwards, then hold the Candle between your Fingers, but a little leaning towards the Mouth of the Veffel; then take out the Spiggot with your left Hand, and clap the Point of it in your Mouth, and keep your left Hand to watch Accidents: When the Veffel is full, withdraw the Spiggot from your Mouth, well wetted with Spittle, which being of a flimy Confiftence, will make it stick fafter in the Foffet. If any Tallow droppeth into the Veffel, you may eafily, if you think fit, remove it with a Spoon, or rather with your Finger.

Always lock up a Cat in the Clofet where you keep your China Plates, for fear the Mice fteal in and break them.

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A good Butler always breaketh off the Point of his Bottle-fcrew in two Days, by trying which is hardeft, the Point of the Screw, or

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the Neck of the Bottle: In this Cafe, to fupply the Want of a Screw, after the Stump hath torn the Cork in Pieces, make ufe of a Silver Fork, and when the Scraps of the Cork are almoft drawn out, flirt the Mouth of the Bottle into the Cistern, three or four Times, until you quite clear it.

If a Gentleman dineth often with your Mafter, and giveth you nothing when he goeth away, you may ufe feveral Methods to fhew him fome Marks of your Difpleasure, and quicken his Memory: If he calleth for Bread or Drink, you may pretend not to hear, or fend it to another who called after him: If he asketh for Wine, let him ftay a while, and then fend him Small-beer; give him always foul Glaffes; and fend him a Spoon when he wanteth a Knife; wink at the Footman to leave him without a Plate: By thefe, and the like Expedients, you may probably be a better Man by Half a Crown before he leaves the House, provided you watch an Opportunity of standing by when he is going.

If your Lady loveth Play, your Fortune is fixed for ever: Moderate Gaming will be a Perquifite of ten Shillings a Week; and in fuch a Family I would rather chufe to be Butler than Chaplain, or even rather than be Steward: It is all ready Money, and got without Labour, unless your Lady happeneth to be one of those, who either obligeth you to find Wax-Candles. or forceth you to divide it with some favourite

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Servants; but at worst, the old Cards are your own; and if the Gamefters play deep, or grow peevish, they will change the Cards so often, that the old ones will be a confiderable Advantage, by felling them to the Coffee-Houses, or Families who love Play, but cannot afford better than Cards at fecond Hand: When you at tend at the Service, be fure to leave new Packs within the Reach of the Gamefters, which, those who have ill Luck will readily take to change their Fortune; and now and then, an old Pack, mingled with the reft, will eafily pafs. Be sure to be very officious on PlayNights, and ready with your Candles to light out your Company; and have Salvers of Wine at hand, to give them when they call; but, manage fo with the Cook, that there be no Supper, because it will be fo much faved in your Master's Family; and, because a Supper will confiderably leffen your Gains.

Next to Cards, there is nothing fo profitable to you as Bottles; in which Perquifite you have no Competitors, except the Footmen, who are apt to fteal and vend them for Pots of Beer; but you are bound to prevent any fuch Abuses in your Master's Family: The Footmen are not to answer for what are broken at a general Bottling; and those may be as many as your Discretion will make them.

The Profit of Glaffes is fo very inconfiderable, that it is hardly worth mentioning: It confifteth only in a fmall Present made by the Glafs-man,

Glafs-man, and about four Shillings in the Pound added to the Prices, for your Trouble and Skill in chufing them. If your Mafter hath a large Stock of Glaffes, and you, or your Fellow-fervants, happen to break any of them without your Mafter's Knowledge, keep it a Secret until there are not enough left to ferve the Table, then tell your Mafter that the Glaffes are gone: This will be but one Vexation to him, which is much better than fretting once or twice a Week; and it is the Office of a good Servant to discompofe his Master and his Lady as feldom as he can; and here the Cat and Dog will be of great Use to take the Blame from you. NOTE, That Bottles miffing are fuppofed to be half stolen by Stragglers, and other Servants; and the other half broken by Accident, and a general Washing.

Whet the Backs of your Knives until they are as sharp as the Edge, which will have this Advantage, that when Gentlemen find them blunt on one Side, they may try the other and to fhew you fpare no Pains in sharpening the Knives, whet them fo long, until you wear out a good Part of the Iron, and even the Bottom of the Silver Handle. This doth Credit to your Mafter, for it fheweth good Housekeeping, and the Goldsmith may one Day make you a Present.

Your Lady, when fhe finds the Small-beer or Ale dead, will blame you for not remembering to put the Peg into the Vent-hole.

This is a great Mistake, nothing being plainer, than that the Peg keeps the Air in the Vessel, which fpoils the Drink, and therefore ought to be left out; but, if the infifteth upon it, to prevent the Trouble of pulling out the Vent, and putting it in a dozen Times a Day, which is not to be borne by a good Servant, leave the Spiggot half out at Night, and you will find, with only the Lofs of two or three Quarts of Liquor, the Veffel will run freely.

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When you prepare your Candles, wrap up in a Piece of brown Paper, and so stick them in the Socket: Let the Paper come halfway up the Candle, which looketh handfome, any body should come in.

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Do all in the Dark to fave your Master's Candles.

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DIRECTIONS to the COOK.

LTHOUGH I am not ignorant that it hath been a long Time fince the Cuftom began among People of Quality to keep Men-Cooks, and generally of the French Nation; yet, because my Treatife is chiefly calculated for the general Run of Knights, 'Squires, and Gentlemen both in Town and Country, I fhall therefore apply to you, Mrs. Cook, as a Woman: However, a great Part

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