Hints to servants

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A series of comic poems gives mock instructions to household staff, each addressed to a different role — butler, cook, valet, footman, housekeeper, chambermaid and others — and offers ironic guidance on duties, saving, social manoeuvres, and everyday deceptions. Framed as a modernized, poetical update of earlier satirical directions, the verses combine practical-sounding tips with barbed humour, lampooning servants' resourcefulness and masters' pretensions while arranging role-based sketches and a closing set of general rules.

HINTS TO SERVANTS:

BEING A

POETICAL AND MODERNISED VERSION OF DEAN SWIFT'S CELEBRATED

"DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS;"

IN WHICH SOMETHING IS ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT, BUT
THOSE PASSAGES ARE OMITTED WHICH

CANNOT WITH PROPRIETY BE READ ALOUD IN

A KITCHEN.

BY AN UPPER SERVANT.

"Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne,
Yet touched and shamed by Ridicule alone!"
POPE.

ILLUSTRATED WITH

TWELVE ORIGINAL DESIGNS, BY KENNY MEADOWS,

ENGRAVED BY JOHN JACKSON.

LONDON:
EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE,
T. AND W. BOONE, NEW BOND STREET,
1843.