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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A kind of guerilla warfare. solicitude for the family purse. He intimates, sometimes, that there is enough wastefulness going on in the kitchen without adding an) in the yard. One can guess the relations between the czar of the yard and the oligarchy of the kitchen to be something strained. Generally a kind of guerilla warfare is waging between the two great powers of the household body politic. At present, Adam excepts the cook (who knows enough to treat a man of his age with respict) from his sarcasms. He confided his opinion of the maids to the grocer, being enough in liquor, at the time to insure candor. Emma, said Adam solemnly, sawing the air with one hand in his most impressive manner, Emma is a perfect lady, and Hattie aint so bads youd think but Martha is a baggage ! Adam inyariably acts for the best good of the family as he sees it. If the family see it otherwise than he and ask him to manage the garden or the stable in an injudicious way Adam respects them far too much to dispute with t

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