 All the time they were there, there was not a week my mother did not sit up two nights, to do the business that was necessary. She went to market, went to the mill to have their corn ground, which it seems is the way with good managers there, dressed...  The Heroines of Domestic Life - Page 212by Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1809 - 572 pages
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 | 1809 - 706 pages
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 | George Rose - 1809 - 440 pages
...not afford keeping any servant, but a little girl to wash the dishes. All the time they were there, there was not a week my mother did not sit up two...necessary : she went to market, went to the mill to have tneir corn ground, which it seems is the way with good managers there, dress't the linen, cleaned the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1809 - 574 pages
...there was not a week .my mother did not si: up two nights, to do the business that was necessary : ^he went to market, went to the mill to have their corn...which it seems is the way with good managers there, dress't the linen, cleaned the house, made ready dinner, mended the children's stockings and other... | |
 | 1856 - 834 pages
...little girl to wash the dishes. All the time they were there, there was not a week my mother (Grisell) did not sit up two nights to do the business that was necessary. She went to the market, went to the mill to have their corn ground — which it seems is the way with good managers... | |
 | 1818 - 628 pages
...not afford keeping any servant, but a little girl to wash the dishes. " All the time they were there, there was not a week my mother did not sit up two...it seems, is the way with good managers there,— drest the linen, cleaned the house, made ready dinner, mended the children's stockings and other deaths,... | |
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...ati'urd keeping any servant, but a little girl to wash the dishes. " All the time they were there, there was not a week my mother did not sit up two...that was necessary : she went to market, went to the n;ill to have their corn ground, which, it seems, is the way with good managers there ,— <trest the... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - 1821 - 420 pages
...of toilsome duty talcing. — P. 233. Lady M.'s Nar. — " All the time they were there (Holland), there was not a week my mother did not sit up two...to do the business that was necessary. She went to the market, and the mill to have the corn ground, as was the way with good managers there; dressed... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 624 pages
...short, ' to do every « thing;' and < there was not a week,' says the prose narrative, « that she did not sit up two nights to do the business that was * necessary.' « And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate play... | |
 | Lady Grisell Baillie Murray - 1822 - 196 pages
...not afford keeping any servant, but a little girl to wash the dishes. All the time they were there, there was not a week my mother did not sit up two...there, dressed the linen, cleaned the house, made ready the dinner, mended the children's stockings and other clothes, made what she could for them, and in... | |
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