From a recent novel:—
"... had bought the long-uninhabited farmhouse ... and was converting it into a little ventre-à-terre for his widowed mother."
It looks as if the old lady intended to go the pace.
"Cook-General Wanted; all nights out; piano, well furnished sitting room; month's holiday with wages each year; three days off per week; washing sent out; wage, one guinea per week."
Northumbrian Paper.
With another three days off and the cooking put out as well as the washing, the Cook-General's Union would, we understand, be almost disposed to recommend the situation to the notice of their less experienced members.
