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THE
COMPLETE SERVANT;
BEING A
PRACTICAL GUIDE
TO THE
PECULIAR DUTIES AND BUSINESS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF
Servants,
FROM THE HOUSEKEEPER TO THE SERVANT OF ALL-WORK,
AND FROM THE LAND STEWARD
TO THE FOOT-BOY;
WITH
USEFUL RECEIPTS AND TABLES,
BY SAMUEL AND SARAH ADAMS,
Fifty years Servants in different Families.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY KNIGHT AND LACEY,
PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS CONNECTED WITH THE USEFUL ARTS,
At the James Watt, in Paternoster-Row.
MDCCCXXV.
Price Seven Shillings and Sixpence.
D. Sidney & Co. Printers,
Northumberland-street, Strand.
PREFACE.
As no relations in society are so numerousand universal as those of Masters and Servants—asthose of Household Duties andthe performers of them—so it is proportionallyimportant that they should be welldefined and understood. It is a species ofknowledge as important to the head of afamily as necessary to the servant; and, ifthoroughly studied, would relieve life ofhalf its anxieties and vexations.
Yet, till the present book, no special attemptto define these relations, and illustratet