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Title: The adventures of Philip on his way through the world : showing who robbed him, who helped him, and who passed him by
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Subjects: Hayes, Catharine (Hall) 1690-1726
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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the villagewere only placards or advertisements for the riders. There was, besides the boy now occupied with the horses,and the landlord and landladj of the Bugle Inn, anotherperson connected with that establishment — a very smart,liandsome, vain, giggling servant-girl, about the age of six-teen, who went by tlie familiar name of Cat, and attendedU2)on the gentlemen in the parlor, while the landlady wasemployed in cooking their supper in the kitchen. Thisyoung person had been educated in the village poor-house,and having been pronounced by Doctor Dobbs and thesclioolmaster the idlest, dirtiest, and most passionate littleminx with whom either had ever had to do, she was, afterreceiving a very small ))ortion of literary instruction(indeed it must be stated that the young lady did not know CATHERINE: A STORY. 303 her letters), bound apprentice at the age of nine years to Mrs. Score, her relative, and landlady of the Bugle Inn. If Miss Cat, or Catherine Hall, was a slattern and a minx,
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Mrs. Score was a far superior shrew; and for seven yearsof her apprenticeship, the girl was completeh at her mis-tresss mercy. Yet though wondrously stingy, jealous andviolent, while her maid was idle and extravagant, and herhusband seemed to abet the girl, Mrs. Score put ujj with 304 CATHERINE: A STORY. the wenchs airs, idleness, and caprices, without ever wishingto dismiss her from the • Bugle. The fact is, that MissCatherine was a great beauty 5 and for about two years,since her fame had begun to spread, the custom of theinn had also increased vastly. When there was a debatewhether the farmers, on their way from market, would taketother pot, Catherine, by appearing with it, would straight-way cause the liquor to be swallowed and paid for; andwhen the traveller who proposed riding that night andsleeping at Coventry or Birmingham, was asked by MissCatherine whether he would like a fire in his bedroom,he generally was induced to occui3y it, although he mightbefore have vowed to Mrs.

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