scullery clean, and all the metallic as well as earthenware kitchen
utensils.
The position of scullery-maid is not, of course, one of high
rank, nor is the payment for her services large. But if she be
fortunate enough to have over her a good kitchen-maid and clever
cook, she may very soon learn to perform various little duties
connected with cooking operations, which may be of considerable
service in fitting her for a more responsible place. Now, it
will be doubtless thought by the majority of our readers, that
the fascinations connected with the position of the
scullery-maid, are not so great as to induce many people to
leave a comfortable home in order to work in a scullery. But we
are acquainted with one instance in which the desire, on the
part of a young girl, was so strong to become connected with the
kitchen and cookery, that she absolutely left her parents, and
engaged herself as a scullery-maid in a gentleman's house. Here
she showed herself so active and intelligent, that she very
quickly rose to the rank of kitchen-maid; and from this, so
great was her gastronomical genius, she became, in a short space
of time, one of the best women-cooks in England. After this, we
think, it must be allowed, that a cook, like a poet, _nascitur,
non fit_.