CHAPTER XIII.
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT COOKS.
FOR sometime I had a treasure of a cook; a fine Bucks county girl, whose strongest recommendation in my eyes, when I engaged her, was that she had never been out of sight of land.

But she left my house for a "better place," as she said.

I might have bribed her to remain, by an offer of higher wages; but, experience had demonstrated to my satisfaction, that this kind of bribery never turns out well.

Your servant, in most instances, soon becomes your mistress--or, at least, makes bold efforts to assume that position.
So, I let my Bucks county girl go to her "better place." As to how or why it was to be a better place, I did not make enquiry.

That was her business.