. The essays of Leigh Hunt. s, or What-are-my-thoughts-like, and tells Mr John to have donethen ; or if there is a ball given that night, they throwopen the doors, and make use of the music up stairs to danceby. In smaller houses, she receives the visits of her afore-said cousin ; and sits down alone, or with a fellow maid-servant, to work; talks of her young master or mistress andMr Ivins (Evans) ; or else she calls to mind her own friendsin the country ; where she thinks the cows and all thatbeautiful, now she is away. Meanwhile, if she is lazy, shesnuffs the candle with her scissors; or if
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. s, or What-are-my-thoughts-like, and tells Mr John to have donethen ; or if there is a ball given that night, they throwopen the doors, and make use of the music up stairs to danceby. In smaller houses, she receives the visits of her afore-said cousin ; and sits down alone, or with a fellow maid-servant, to work; talks of her young master or mistress andMr Ivins (Evans) ; or else she calls to mind her own friendsin the country ; where she thinks the cows and all thatbeautiful, now she is away. Meanwhile, if she is lazy, shesnuffs the candle with her scissors; or if she has eaten moreheartily than usual, she sighs double the usual number oftimes, and thinks that tender hearts were born to be unhappy. Such being the Maid-servants life in-doors, she scorns,when abroad, to be anything but a creature of sheer enjoy-ment. The Maid-servant, the sailor, and the school-boy,are the three beings that enjoy a holiday beyond all the restof the world ;—and all for the same reason,—because their. VV\ J W» tKrougk a>r\ cj^«3U^y routed, ©Ct-\ov«, THE MAID-SERVANT 135 inexperience, peculiarity of life, and habit of being withpersons of circumstances or thoughts above them, give themall, in their way, a cast of the romantic. The most activeof the money-getters is a vegetable compared with Maid-servant when she first goes to Vauxhall, thinksshe is in heaven. A theatre is all pleasure to her, whateveris going forward, whether the play or the music, or thewaiting which makes others impatient, or the munching ofapples and gingerbread, which she and her party commencealmost as soon as they have seated themselves. She preferstragedy to comedy, because it is grander, and less like whatshe meets with in general; and because she thinks it morein earnest also, especially in the love-scenes. Her favouriteplay is Alexander the Great, or the Rival Queens. Anothergreat delight is in going a shopping. She loves to look atthe patterns in the windows
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