Here's something that will wear like pin-wire.' This did better, but was declared to be 'gallus dear.' Even within recent years, now and then a servant-girl upon entering service at the farmhouse would refuse to touch butcher's meat.

She had never tasted anything but bacon at home, and could only be persuaded to eat fresh meat with difficulty, being afraid she should not like it.

One girl who came from a lonely cottage in a distant 'coombe-bottom' of the Downs was observed never to write home or attempt to communicate with her parents.

She said it was of no use; no postman came near, and the letters they wrote or the letters written to them never reached their destination.

'Coombe-bottom' is a curious duplication--either word being used to indicate a narrow valley or hollow.