THAT SERVANT GIRL OF OURS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 16, 18 January 1878, Page 4

THAT SERVANT GIRL OF OURS.

(" Atticus" in the Leader.)

A lawyer's wife engaged a servant recently. The appointed time for (ho girl'a arrival come, but the girl herself didn't. The lady had takeu the precaution when makiug the agreement of asking the servant for her a J dress ; and she sallied forth to the Irish quarter of the city surrounding St. Francis' Cathedral to see what was keeping her. Mits Mahoney was at home. In fact she couldn't well be denied, as sho opened the door herself — slightly negligent, in attire, aad wiih hor hair done up in paper. " You were to have bsen with nue three hours ugo," the lady cmimenced, when a female voice from inside was heard catling, "Ask your friend in, Miss Mahoney." Thia being repeated two or three times, ihe lady entered tbe house, whereupon a berry jovial looking ruuu in shirt sledves, advanced towards them nod whispered aloud, •• Introduce ma to your iriend, MiBS Mahoney." ''Mako your Iriend stop to dinner, Mis 3 Mahoney," (Tied the voice iiom the inside. Miss Mjljcney was puzzled, but at the game iime composed. " I'm aorry, Mrs Dash," she said, " tbat 1 forgot iuat I was engaged to a dinner pany to day when I promised you. This, Mr Ily an, is Mis Dash, which I'am {joiug to service to to-morrow." " Make your friend stop to dinner, Miss Mahoney," said Mr Eyau. with the hotpitulky of his nation '• we'll find a knife and fork for her.' It ended, however, in Mrs Dash not Stopping to dinner, aud Miss Mahoney

not commiug the next day. Not that Mrs Dash would have objected, but Miss Mahoney thought her friends the Ryans had been- slighted.