tand idly watching it, but
lay it on the coals, and mind your other business; then come back,
and if you find it toasted quite through, scrape off the burnt side
and serve it up.

"When a message is sent to your master, be kind to your brother
servant who brings it; give him the best liquor in your keeping,
for your master's honour; and, at the first opportunity he will do
the same to you.

"When you are to get water for tea, to save firing, and to make
more haste, pour it into the tea-kettle from the pot where cabbage
or fish have been boiling, which will make it much wholesomer by
curing the acid and corroding quality of the tea.

"Directions to cooks.--Never send up the leg of a fowl at supper,
while there is a cat or dog in the house that can be accused of
running away with it, but if there happen to be neither, you must
lay it upon the rats, or a stray greyhound.

"When you roast a long joint of meat, be careful only about the
middle, and leave the two extreme parts raw, which will serve
another time and also save firing.

"Let a red-hot coal, now and then fall into the dripping pan that
the smoke of the dripping may ascend and give the roast meat a high
taste.

"If your dinner miscarries in almost every dish, how could you help
it? You were teased by the footman coming into the kitchen; and to
prove it, take occasion to be angry, and throw a ladleful of broth
on one or two of their liveries.

"To Footmen.--In order to learn the secrets of other families, tell
them those of your masters; thus you will grow a favourite both at
home and abroad, and be regarded as a person of importance.

"Never be seen in the streets with a basket or bundle in your
hands, and carry nothing but what you can hide in your pockets,
otherwise you will disgrace your calling; to prevent which, always
retain a blackguard boy to carry your loads, and if you want
farthings, pay him with a good slice of bread or scrap of meat.

"Let a shoe-boy clean your own boots first, then let him clean your
master's. Keep him on purpose for that use, and pay him with
scraps. When you are sent on an errand, be sure to edge in some
business of your own, either to see your sweetheart, or drink a pot
of ale with some brother servants, which is so much time clear