The last o' the singers is dead."
CHAPTER XII.
OLD SERVANTS.
WHEN Doomsday Book was drawn up, there was but one female domestic servant in the county of Devon, that covers one million six hundred and fifty-five thousand acres. When I mentioned that fact to a lady of my acquaintance, she heaved a deep-drawn sigh, and said, "I wish I had lived in the times of Doomsday, and had not been the mistress of that one servant-maid."