“If you find yourself to grow in favour with your master or lady, take some opportunity in a very mild way to give them warning; and when they ask the reason, and seem loth to part with you, answer that you would rather live with them than any body else, but a poor servant is not to be blamed if he strives to better himself;—that service is no inheritance,—that your work is great, and your wages very small. Upon which, if your master hath any generosity, he will add five or ten shillings a quarter rather than let you go: but if you are baulked, and have no mind to go off, get some fellow-servant to tell your master, that he hath prevailed upon you to stay. “Whatever _tid bits_ you can _pilfer_ in the day, save them to juncket with your fellow-servants at night, and take in the _butler_, provided he will give you _drink_. “Write your own name, and your sweet-heart’s, with the smoke of a candle, on the ceiling of the kitchen, or the servants’-hall, to shew your learning. “If you are a young sightly fellow, whenever you whisper your young mistress at tea-table, run your nose full in her cheek; or, if your breath be good, breath full in her face; this I have known to have had very good consequences in some families. “Never come till you have been called three or four times, for none but _dogs_ will come at the first whistle: and when the master calls, _Who’s there?_ no servant is bound to come; for _Who’s there_ is nobody’s name. “When you have broken all your earthen drinking-vessels below stairs (which is usually done in a week), the copper pot will do as well; it can boil milk, heat porridge, hold small beer, or, in case of necessity, serve other purposes; therefore apply it indifferently to all these uses; but never wash or scour it, for fear of taking off the tin.