How many portly butlers are kept in subjection by having a footman ready to supplant them.

Of all cards in the servitude pack, however, the huntsman's is the most difficult one to play.

A man may say, 'I'm dim'd if I won't clean my own boots or my own horse, before I'll put up with such a fellow's impudence'; but when it comes to hunting his own hounds, it is quite another pair of shoes, as Mr.Bragg would say.
Mr.Bragg regularly took possession of poor Puff; as regularly as a policeman takes possession of a prisoner.

The reader knows the sort of feeling one has when a lawyer, a doctor, an architect, or any one whom we have called in to assist, takes the initiative, and treats one as a nonentity, pooh-poohing all one's pet ideas, and upsetting all one's well-considered arrangements.
Bragg soon saw he had a greenhorn to deal with, and treated Puff accordingly.

If a 'perfect servant' is only to begot out of the establishments of the great, Mr.Bragg might be looked upon as a paragon of perfection, and now combined in his own person all the bad practices of all the places he had been in.