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Paperbacks: HHHII Directions to Servants By Jonathan Swift hesperus pounds 6.99
From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030831
Author:James Urquhart
"You need not wipe your knife to cut bread from a table," Swift advises butlers; "in cutting a slice or two it will wipe itself." Replete with such labour-saving ideas, Directions to Servants exhorts domestic staff to "be pert and saucy to all" and gives valuable advice on slacking, skiving, pilfering and making excuses. Some of Swift's suggestions are slapstick, such as tucking a plate into one's waistcoat for whipping out as an emergency handkerchief should a sneeze arrive while one is serving dinner. Most propose comically frugal economies, like making up small beer from the dregs of empty ...
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