"Please, massa, I got married yesterday," and the broad black face of Pompey was lit up with a rather sheepish-looking grin.
All the caricatures of the comic papers are outdone by realities in America.
These, for instance, are not caricatures, but facts:
Servant-maids will often refuse to enter your service if there is not a piano in the basement.
Others will demand folding-beds. They will give you to understand that, when they receive their "gentlemen" friends, it is not proper and becoming to entertain them in a room where the bed on which they repose their charms at night is spread out.
I know a lady who, losing her patience with her housemaid one day, said to her:
"I expect my servants to do so and so."
"Your what?" cried the indignant damsel. "I'll just tell you what I think of you. You ain't no lady, that's certain."