THE GLORIES OF THE KITCHEN.
HINTS TO SERVANTS:
BEING A
POETICAL AND MODERNISED VERSION OF DEAN SWIFT'S CELEBRATED
"DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS;"
IN WHICH SOMETHING IS ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT, BUT
THOSE PASSAGES ARE OMITTED WHICH
CANNOT WITH PROPRIETY BE READ ALOUD IN
A KITCHEN.
"Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne,
Yet touched and shamed by Ridicule alone!"
POPE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH
TWELVE ORIGINAL DESIGNS, BY KENNY MEADOWS,
ENGRAVED BY JOHN JACKSON.
LONDON:
EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE,
T. AND W. BOONE, NEW BOND STREET,
1843.
LONDON:
Printed by Maurice and Co., Howford-buildings,
Fenchurch-street.
PREFACE,
ADDRESSED TO ALL MY FELLOW-SERVANTS.
Once on a time a Rev'rend Dean
There lived, (and you know whom I mean,)
Keen as a hawk each fault to seize,
And Swift to blame, as slow to please;
Swell'd up with pride to height of tumour,
Though all admired his dogged humour.
But since our Pompey knew not how