Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells
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have to give you a trial."
"But don't you know anything of a housemaid's duties?" inquired Aunt Alice, who was a little dubious in the face of such absolute ignorance. "For instance, if the door-bell should ring, what would you do?" "I would have asked Miss Patty beforehand, ma'am, and I would do whatever she had told me to." "Good enough!" exclaimed Mr. Fairfield. "I think you'll do, Pansy; at any rate, you'll have nothing to unlearn, and that's a great deal." So the waitress was engaged, and it was not long after this that a cook "dropped from the skies," as Patty expressed it. One afternoon a large and amiable-looking coloured woman appeared at Mrs. Elliott's house, with a note from Mrs. Stevens recommending her as a cook for Patty. As soon as Patty saw her she liked her, but, remembering previous experiences, she said: "Do you understand that you are to work for me? I'm a very young housekeeper, you know." "Laws, missy, dat's all right. Til do de housekeepin' and you can do de bossin'. I reckon we'll get along mos' beautiful." "That sounds attractive, I'm sure," said Patty, laughing. "What is your name?" "Emancipation Proclamation Jackson," announced the owner of the |
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