scullerywork

Updated: May 23, 2025

Along the wall, ranged up in line, like soldiers facing their captain, or victims of a hold-up their captor, stood the household servants portly Shaw the butler, Beatrice the parlor-maid, Eliza the "chef-cook" all, down to the gay young sprig, aforesaid, who, as Martha had explained to her family in strong disapproval, "was engaged to do scullerywork, an' then didn't even know how to scull."

Julie Mathilde Lippmann - Martha By-the-Day