A Sleepy Servant.
" Will you tell me, sir, what to do with my servant?" asked a lady who stepped into the witness-box of theMarylebone Police Court. "Make he,r serve you," replied the magistrate:' '" But si}e won't," was the reply, ahe ''won't answer the door bfillr'and in fact, she won't do any work at all. The only thing she will do is to remain in bed all day. Wheii I say to her • get up, Mary Jane'? 1 she simply replies, * Deed, mum. I'm very comfortable where I am ; I like to keep a good place when I'm in it,' or else she won't answer me at all. I have discharged her, but she won't go, and she won't even up to dress herself." "Have you paid her her wages?" asiced the magistrate. " Every penny, sir. " Where is she now ? " "Lj bed, sir." "If that be so," added, his worship, "she is an intruder and can be turned out as such," " But I can't turn her out in her ohemiae, and she won't dress herself." " That," the magistrate admitted, " was an awkward ciroupqjstpnce; but," he added as a happy thought, " you can engage some strong women to dress the girl, and then you can turn her out." The lady thanked his honour for the suggestion ana hurried off to carry
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Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1893, Page 3
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219A Sleepy Servant. Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1893, Page 3
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