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If you desire to retain the servant Lucy another
year, will you be so good as to inform me, at some early day, that
I may know whether to seek a place for her elsewhere. In consideration
of her somewhat delicate health, the terms of hire asked will
be the same as heretofore.
Lucy's mistress is under the impression from what she has
heard from other servants, that Lucy's rheumatism is perhaps aggravated
by her sleeping apartment being paved with brick—the brick
floor being always liable to dampness. If this be so, perhaps it
would not be amiss to suggest, if you retain her in your service,
that a plank floor might be put down, over the bricks, which would
probably render her less subject to attacks of rheumatism, and make
her health better, as well as enable her to be more useful in your
service.
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