. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. At length onebustles in with the tea equipage, and toast swimming in a lapse of time, another appears with the tea-kettle, whichhe leaves on the hearth till he goes in search of the tea; andso on. Everything is served in detachments, and in a mannercalculated to try the temper of travellers. Damp beds, badcookery, wretched attendance, and slovenliness in everything,are rapidly causing a general desertion of the establishment,and impending ruin threatens this last branch of the old andrespectable stock of the Macclartys. A
. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. At length onebustles in with the tea equipage, and toast swimming in a lapse of time, another appears with the tea-kettle, whichhe leaves on the hearth till he goes in search of the tea; andso on. Everything is served in detachments, and in a mannercalculated to try the temper of travellers. Damp beds, badcookery, wretched attendance, and slovenliness in everything,are rapidly causing a general desertion of the establishment,and impending ruin threatens this last branch of the old andrespectable stock of the Macclartys. A rival house has beenset up by a late scholar of Mrs Mason, and as it is conductedwith care for the comfort of travellers, and with the most scru-pulous regard for cleanliness, it is attractingall the trade toitself—furnishing another example of the advantages of acti-vity and prudence over that slothfulness which leaves every-thing to be done to-morrow, and excuses itself by that per-verse and self-indulgent phrase of Mrs Macclarty—/ canna
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