felwick

Updated: September 28, 2025

To our surprise, it was empty. "Why, where's the cook and housemaid?" cried one and another to Smith. "Oh," said Smith, who with the cares of generalship upon him had taken only a small part in the jubilation which had just been celebrated, "the servants have gone home. They both live at Felwick, so I said they might take a week's holiday."

Talbot Baines Reed - My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life