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A LONG AGO STORY. 105

    

the less so for being able to spin and to knit,
and to cook too, I dare say,” said nurse.

 
 

“ But ladies, and high-born ones too, in those

 
 

days turned their hands to many things they

 
 

think beneath them now. I know Miss Janet's

  
 

mother would never have thought of letting
any one but herself wash up her breakfast

 
 
  

and tea services. The cups were a sight to

  
 

be seen, certainly, of such beautiful old china e

 
 

they were worth taking care of; and that’s
how old china has been kept together. There

 
 
  

isn't much of what’s in use nowadays will

 
 

go down to your grandchildren and great-
grandchildren, Miss Flossie, with the smash-
ing and dashing that goes on. My lady had
a white wood bowl kept on purpose, and the
napkin of the finest damask, and a large apron
of fine holland that she put on, and, oh yes!
a pair of embroidered holland cuffs she used

to draw on over her sleeves up to the elbow;

    
    
    
   
    
 
    

and a lady she looked, I can assure you, rins-

 
 

ing out and drying her beautiful cups with
her pretty white hands!”