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RECOLLECTIONS

OF A

HOUSEKEEPER.

BY MRS. CLARISSA PACKARD.

Quickly. Look you, I keep his house, and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress

meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself.

Simple. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS

NO. 82 CLIFF STREET.

1838.

AL 1842.5.40

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL
1918

Yilman Mrs. C. (H.)

[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.]

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RECOLLECTIONS

OF A

HOUSEKEEPER.

CHAPTER I.

Ici tout est vivant, tout parle à ma memoire

TRENEUIL.

Far

up

the tide of time I turn my sail.

ROGERS.

My maiden name was Clarissa Gray. I was born in the neighbourhood of Boston (Mass.), in 17—, and educated with the few facilities at that time afforded for the young; that is, I read "No man may" in Webster's Spelling-book, then advanced to the more elaborate "Art of

Speaking," and committed to memory, page by page, Morse's Geography, without maps, of course in glorious uncertainty with regard to the position even of my own country. My

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