Bridget had just started on her duties as housemaid, and on the very first day she came up to her new employer.
"Please, mum," she said, "would yez raoind givin' me a recommendation?"
"A recommendation, Bridget!" exclaimed the mistress, with a look of alarm. "Why, you have only just come!"
"Yes, mum," admitted Bridget, "but you might not be wantin' to give me one when Oi'm lavin*, mum."
The old man's wife was entering a railway carriage and he made no effort to help her.
"You are not so gallant, John, as when I was a girl," she said in gentle rebuke.
"No," was his reply, "and you are not so buoyant as when I was a boy."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3481, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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